1The smallest unit of ancient Roman municipal administration, consisting of a village or part of a town.
维克司（古罗马市辖最小单位，由一个村庄或一个镇的一部分构成）
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The principal sites to have received archaeological attention are the forts and their associated civilian settlements or vici.
However, to complicate matters, ‘wich ‘in some instances may derive from the Latin vicus, which was used broadly for dwellings, farms, hamlets, or subsidiary settlements.’
Antiquarian reports had recorded Roman tombstones from the area east of the fort and vicus, an attached civilian settlement, alongside the trans-Pennine road.
Similar stakeholes were found near Wallsend, surrounding the vicus enclosure outside the Roman fort.
Life for the ordinary people of the vicus or village seemed a little more interesting than that of the upper classes, but it remained harsh and unforgiving.
The settlement was abandoned by the end of the 3rd century - like other vici on the northern frontier - and was then cultivated as fields or allotments, presumably by the garrison.