CAMULODUNUM  , also written CAMALODVNUM (mod .

Colchester, q.v.), a British and Roman town . It was the capital of the British chief Cunobelin and is named on his coins: after his death and the Roman conquest of south Britain, the Romans' established (about A.D . 48) a colonic or municipality peopled with discharged legionaries, and intended to serve both as an informal garrison and as a centre of Roman civilization . It was stormed and burnt A.D . 61 in the rising of Boadicea (q.v.), but soon recovered and became one of the chief towns in Roman Britain . Its walls and some other buildings still stand and 'abundant Roman remains enrich the local museum . The name denotes " the fortress of Camulos," the Celtic Mars .