Vinovia
VINO´VIA(in Ptol. Οὐιννούϊον, 2.3.16), a town of the Brigantes in the N. of Britannia Romana. ( Itin. Ant. p. 465.) Now Binchesternear Bishop Auckland, with remains of Roman walls and other antiquities. (Camden, p. 945.) In the Not. Imp. and by the Geogr. Rav. (5.31) it is called Vinonia.
[T.H.D]Site of Roman fort 1.6 km N of Bishop Auckland, on Dere Street 34 km N of Cataractonium (NZ 208314). The fort may have been over 2.4 ha in size, and was occupied from the Flavian period probably to the early 5th c. The original clay ramparts were reinforced with a stone wall, probably in the 2d c. A catapult platform of early 4th c. date was found abutting the wall on the SE side. A hypocaust still visible on the site may have formed part of the commander's house. The 3d c. garrison was the ala Vettonum (RIB 730, 1028, 1035) and probably in the 4th c. a unit of Frisians (RIB 1036), perhaps equites catafractarii. Industrial activity is attested in the large extramural village.
BIBLIOGRAPHYR. E. Hooppell, Vinovia, a Buried Roman City (1891); E. Birley, Trans. Archit. and Archaeol. Soc. of Durham and Northumberland 11 (1958) 56; B. Dobson & M. G. Jarrett, ibid. 115-24.
J. C. MANN