id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8907 Eboracum - Wikipedia .html text/html 4932 585 70 When Brigantian leadership changed, becoming more hostile to Rome, Roman General Quintus Petillius Cerialis led the Ninth Legion north from Lincoln across the Humber.[8] Eboracum was founded in 71 AD when Cerialis and the Ninth Legion constructed a military fortress (castra) on flat ground above the River Ouse near its junction with the River Foss. The true paths of all original Roman roads leading out of Eboracum are not known,[50] although eleven have been suggested.[50] The known roads include Dere Street leading North-West from the city through Clifton towards the site of Cataractonium (modern Catterick), Cade's Road Towards Petuaria (modern Brough), and Ermine Street towards Lindum (modern Lincoln).[50] A road bypassing the south wall of the fortress, between the fortress and the River Ouse has not been formally planned, although its path is conjectured to run beneath the York Museum Gardens.[50] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8907.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8907.txt