#mamucium

[mostly-history]

Reconstructed foundations of buildings in the settlement of Mamucium, a Roman fort built around 79 AD.

“Mamucium” may be a Latinized form of a name in Common Brittonic, either from mamm- (breast), referring to a breast-like hill; or from mamma (mother), referring to a local river goddess.  The fort's name was also misread as Mancunium, and this eventually became Manchester, for the modern-day city.

[eatinmcr]

Mamucium (Manchester) – February 2020

Mamucium gives you those pies, pies and pies

Mamucium, the restaurant on the bottom floor of Hotel Indigo is an airy, curved hotel in the centre of Manchester with a rustic theme and really, comfy seats. 

For Pie week turning into pie month, Mamucium are offering a special pie menu for March where you can get a pie, side and unlimited gravy £12.50 and if you want an additional side, it comes to £15. There’s another option of a sharers board for £50, which we were provided with.

For the pies, we got a double whammy of;

Sweet Potato, Pearl Barley & Kale (v) - The kale was strong on this one but such a good mixture of items to be in a pie. It had really nice flavours and was really filling

Classic Lancashire Cheese & Onion (v) - It sure was a classic and a gooey, creamy and oozing one with goodness. 

For the sides we had;

Honey Roasted Chantenay Carrots - Small, fat crunchy pieces of flavourful carrots. One of those sides that you just munch on and thoroughly enjoy doing so.

Manchester Caviar (Mushy Peas) - This reminded us of the lovely mushy peas we had at Harvey Nicks. The same description goes for these and was mushy, greeny and tasted fresh

Creamy Mash Potatoes - Another classic that was done well. Creamy and a perfect side dish

Hand-Cut Fries - Classic fries, soft and crunchy 

Joseph Holts Beer Battered Onion Rings - This contains beer and can be substituted for another item

The gravy wasn’t vegetarian so they made us an alternative romesco sauce, It’s bold, zippy and full of roasted tomato and pepper flavour.

Recommended for: Pies, Romesco sauce, Comfy seats One Thing: Side plates Price: ££ Halal: Vegetarian

6 Todd St Manchester  M3 1WU www.mamuciummcr.com

[rubynekklace]

Mamucian (reconstructed Roman fort/wall). Castlefields, Manchester, England

[thegirlwhodidstuff]

Can we go back to having #spring again, like last week in #manchester ? #daffodils #beethamtower #castlefield #castlefieldromanfort #bluesky #romanfort #mamucium #home #citygreenspace #city #greenspace #england #enoughhashtags (at Castlefield)

[217lemurs]

A plan of the Roman fort of Mamucium and a photograph of part of the site from 1972 (the current Ox Noble pub is visible to the left). From 'The Deansgate Dig. Roman Manchester:Interim Report of the 1972 Excavation' by GDB Jones and JP Wild.

[manchestergalore]

The recorded history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort of Mamucium. The Roman fort was established c. AD 79 near a crossing point on the River Medlock. The fort was sited on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell in a naturally defensible position. It was erected as a series of fortifications established by Gnaeus Julius Agricola during his campaign against the Brigantes who were the Celtic tribe in control of most of northern England.