Danum
Danum in Britain, mentioned in the eighth Itinerary as being the second station on the road from York to Lincoln. Name for name, and place for place, Danum == Don-caster. Danum was the station of the Praefectus Equitum Crispianorum of the Notitia. Roman remains are found at Doncaster.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.