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"The Britons live in such a state of independence
that they do not obey
even their own chiefs
except by their own good pleasure."
Cassius Dio
#Archaeology #History of #RomanBritain
that they do not obey
even their own chiefs
except by their own good pleasure."
Cassius Dio
#Archaeology #History of #RomanBritain
Pinned
#RomanSiteSaturday
Caerwent - The basilica occupied one side of the forum. This building was huge, measuring 260 ft long and 182 ft wide. The basilica was used for civic events.
It must have dwarfed other buildings, standing roughly 65 ft high. #VentaSilurum
#RomanBritain #Archaeology
Caerwent - The basilica occupied one side of the forum. This building was huge, measuring 260 ft long and 182 ft wide. The basilica was used for civic events.
It must have dwarfed other buildings, standing roughly 65 ft high. #VentaSilurum
#RomanBritain #Archaeology
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Hiding in plain sight - a tiny stretch of the Antonine Wall ditch at Bantaskin in Falkirk. The stone base of the Roman wall was excavated here in 1976, but then destroyed to make way for a new road. #RomanSiteSaturday
January 31, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Hiding in plain sight - a tiny stretch of the Antonine Wall ditch at Bantaskin in Falkirk. The stone base of the Roman wall was excavated here in 1976, but then destroyed to make way for a new road. #RomanSiteSaturday
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The rebuilt foundations of three buildings that formed part of the settlement (vicus) that developed around the Roman fort at Manchester (Mamucium). The foundations and reconstructed North Gate are located in the Castlefield area of the city. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday
January 31, 2026 at 8:01 AM
The rebuilt foundations of three buildings that formed part of the settlement (vicus) that developed around the Roman fort at Manchester (Mamucium). The foundations and reconstructed North Gate are located in the Castlefield area of the city. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday
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#RomanSiteSaturday Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery's photo dioramas at the entrance to their Roman gallery don't muck about on the subject of the brutality of the Roman conquest.. ⚔️
Huge changes for the Cornovii tribe 1,970 years ago..😬🫣
📷 My own, yesterday
Huge changes for the Cornovii tribe 1,970 years ago..😬🫣
📷 My own, yesterday
January 31, 2026 at 6:33 AM
#RomanSiteSaturday Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery's photo dioramas at the entrance to their Roman gallery don't muck about on the subject of the brutality of the Roman conquest.. ⚔️
Huge changes for the Cornovii tribe 1,970 years ago..😬🫣
📷 My own, yesterday
Huge changes for the Cornovii tribe 1,970 years ago..😬🫣
📷 My own, yesterday
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Bronze #cooking pan (trulleus) the handle is stamped with the names of the Gaulish maker Maturus and that of the 1st Thracian cavalry regiment. Found in a well of an officer's house on the museum site #Isca Caerleon
#RomanBritain
#Roman #Archaeology #Wales
#RomanBritain
#Roman #Archaeology #Wales
January 28, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Bronze #cooking pan (trulleus) the handle is stamped with the names of the Gaulish maker Maturus and that of the 1st Thracian cavalry regiment. Found in a well of an officer's house on the museum site #Isca Caerleon
#RomanBritain
#Roman #Archaeology #Wales
#RomanBritain
#Roman #Archaeology #Wales
Bronze #cooking pan (trulleus) the handle is stamped with the names of the Gaulish maker Maturus and that of the 1st Thracian cavalry regiment. Found in a well of an officer's house on the museum site #Isca Caerleon
#RomanBritain
#Roman #Archaeology #Wales
#RomanBritain
#Roman #Archaeology #Wales
January 28, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Bronze #cooking pan (trulleus) the handle is stamped with the names of the Gaulish maker Maturus and that of the 1st Thracian cavalry regiment. Found in a well of an officer's house on the museum site #Isca Caerleon
#RomanBritain
#Roman #Archaeology #Wales
#RomanBritain
#Roman #Archaeology #Wales
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I’ve been there! really enjoyed the museum.
January 20, 2026 at 12:38 PM
I’ve been there! really enjoyed the museum.
#MosaicMonday
Hunting dogs from a mosaic - Cirencester.
This mosaic was found under Dyer Street, in 1849, inspiring the creation of the first #Corinium Museum. In the centre, three #dogs converge on their prey.
#RomanBritain #Archaeology #History
Hunting dogs from a mosaic - Cirencester.
This mosaic was found under Dyer Street, in 1849, inspiring the creation of the first #Corinium Museum. In the centre, three #dogs converge on their prey.
#RomanBritain #Archaeology #History
January 19, 2026 at 1:26 PM
#MosaicMonday
Hunting dogs from a mosaic - Cirencester.
This mosaic was found under Dyer Street, in 1849, inspiring the creation of the first #Corinium Museum. In the centre, three #dogs converge on their prey.
#RomanBritain #Archaeology #History
Hunting dogs from a mosaic - Cirencester.
This mosaic was found under Dyer Street, in 1849, inspiring the creation of the first #Corinium Museum. In the centre, three #dogs converge on their prey.
#RomanBritain #Archaeology #History
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Visiting the excellent Dicket Mead #Roman villa bathhouse beneath the busy A1(M) in Welwyn, Hertfordshire with Kris Lockyear @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social
Can almost touch the underfloor heating...
Time for a bit of long distance pilae-prodding? (apologies, that sounds sooo wrong 😬)
#Hypocaustgate
Can almost touch the underfloor heating...
Time for a bit of long distance pilae-prodding? (apologies, that sounds sooo wrong 😬)
#Hypocaustgate
January 17, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Visiting the excellent Dicket Mead #Roman villa bathhouse beneath the busy A1(M) in Welwyn, Hertfordshire with Kris Lockyear @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social
Can almost touch the underfloor heating...
Time for a bit of long distance pilae-prodding? (apologies, that sounds sooo wrong 😬)
#Hypocaustgate
Can almost touch the underfloor heating...
Time for a bit of long distance pilae-prodding? (apologies, that sounds sooo wrong 😬)
#Hypocaustgate
It was common to detach a #centurion from their units and use them in #taxation, #police, or other administrative capacities.
At #Bath a centurion called Gaius Severius Emeritus tells us on an altar, of repair work on a vandalised monument near Bath. (Aquae Sulis)
#RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain
At #Bath a centurion called Gaius Severius Emeritus tells us on an altar, of repair work on a vandalised monument near Bath. (Aquae Sulis)
#RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM
It was common to detach a #centurion from their units and use them in #taxation, #police, or other administrative capacities.
At #Bath a centurion called Gaius Severius Emeritus tells us on an altar, of repair work on a vandalised monument near Bath. (Aquae Sulis)
#RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain
At #Bath a centurion called Gaius Severius Emeritus tells us on an altar, of repair work on a vandalised monument near Bath. (Aquae Sulis)
#RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain
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One of the best preserved sections of the Antonine Wall, just west of Rough Castle Fort, near Falkirk. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #AntonineWall
January 17, 2026 at 7:42 AM
One of the best preserved sections of the Antonine Wall, just west of Rough Castle Fort, near Falkirk. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #AntonineWall
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A surviving section of the late 3rd c AD Roman wall of VERVLAMIVM, municipium of the Catuvellauni, looking out to the medieval abbey church and later catherdral of St Alban, martyred here in the early 4th
📷 Jan 2026 #Hertfordshire
#RomanSiteSaturday
📷 Jan 2026 #Hertfordshire
#RomanSiteSaturday
January 17, 2026 at 8:56 AM
A surviving section of the late 3rd c AD Roman wall of VERVLAMIVM, municipium of the Catuvellauni, looking out to the medieval abbey church and later catherdral of St Alban, martyred here in the early 4th
📷 Jan 2026 #Hertfordshire
#RomanSiteSaturday
📷 Jan 2026 #Hertfordshire
#RomanSiteSaturday
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#RomanSiteSaturday
The remains of the hypocaust floor in the bath suite at Wroxeter. 📸My own.
and yes I went and stood in it ! 👀🤣
#Archaeology #History
The remains of the hypocaust floor in the bath suite at Wroxeter. 📸My own.
and yes I went and stood in it ! 👀🤣
#Archaeology #History
January 17, 2026 at 2:46 PM
#RomanSiteSaturday
The remains of the hypocaust floor in the bath suite at Wroxeter. 📸My own.
and yes I went and stood in it ! 👀🤣
#Archaeology #History
The remains of the hypocaust floor in the bath suite at Wroxeter. 📸My own.
and yes I went and stood in it ! 👀🤣
#Archaeology #History
#RomanBritain 🧐
Detectorist who 'dug up Roman brooch' actually bought it on eBay - BBC News share.google/HBxCBOufSfwx...
Detectorist who 'dug up Roman brooch' actually bought it on eBay - BBC News share.google/HBxCBOufSfwx...
Detectorist who 'dug up Roman brooch' actually bought it on eBay - BBC News
Funeral director Jason Price "deceived thousands" of people by planting the Leasingham horse brooch.
share.google
January 11, 2026 at 10:12 AM
#RomanBritain 🧐
Detectorist who 'dug up Roman brooch' actually bought it on eBay - BBC News share.google/HBxCBOufSfwx...
Detectorist who 'dug up Roman brooch' actually bought it on eBay - BBC News share.google/HBxCBOufSfwx...
Forden Gaer was a #Roman fort which lies on the Roman road between Wroxeter and Caersws.
#RomanfortThursday
#Archaeology #RomanBritain
#RomanfortThursday
#Archaeology #RomanBritain
![Forden Gaer, Y Gaer, Caer Flos and Lavrobrinta are respective English, Welsh and possible Latin names for the Roman fort in the township of Thornbury, in the parish of Forden, in the old county of Montgomeryshire, which now forms part of Powys, Wales . The fort lies on the E bank of the Severn a short distance N of Montgomery, and covers an important crossing of the river close to the historic ford at Rhydywhyman. It is likely that this is the same fort as Lavrobrinta, which is mentioned in the Ravenna Cosmography.[1] The fort lies on the Roman Road between Wroxeter and Caersws. The defences were originally of earth, subsequently revetted with a timber-laced rampart of clay. Some internal buildings may have been of stone. The fort was established ca. A.D. 75-80 and was not finally abandoned before the reign of Valentinian I (A.D. 364-378). The finds are in the Powysland Museum, Welshpool.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a45lchb5j3y4lqecjho6qrv2/bafkreib22gvu22lmcvfxhqoaqka555f7fmohfj5mg6bxebzkqyjzr4hjdm@jpeg)
January 8, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Forden Gaer was a #Roman fort which lies on the Roman road between Wroxeter and Caersws.
#RomanfortThursday
#Archaeology #RomanBritain
#RomanfortThursday
#Archaeology #RomanBritain
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@durotrigesdig.bsky.social, @tessmachling.bsky.social: we've got a new ring tone for you.
#Carnyx
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
(1hr 47min 10sec - sound on)
#Carnyx
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
(1hr 47min 10sec - sound on)
January 7, 2026 at 9:36 AM
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social, @tessmachling.bsky.social: we've got a new ring tone for you.
#Carnyx
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
(1hr 47min 10sec - sound on)
#Carnyx
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
(1hr 47min 10sec - sound on)
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More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in #Norfolk with boar standard and shield bosses
👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
January 7, 2026 at 9:31 AM
More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in #Norfolk with boar standard and shield bosses
👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
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The new Norfolk Iron Age carnyx find featured on #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is beyond spectacular, dating to that crucial period for the Iceni between Caesar’s expeditions & Boudica’s rebellion. Already my find of the decade, today is a day to worship the carnyx…
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January 7, 2026 at 9:34 AM
The new Norfolk Iron Age carnyx find featured on #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is beyond spectacular, dating to that crucial period for the Iceni between Caesar’s expeditions & Boudica’s rebellion. Already my find of the decade, today is a day to worship the carnyx…
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Let's take a moment to think about all those people who chose today to announce the fact they didn't discover a carnyx. 🙏😢🥰
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Offerton Roman factory 'hidden in plain sight' on River Wear
The volunteers who discovered the Roman factory say it made whetstones used to sharpen tools.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Let's take a moment to think about all those people who chose today to announce the fact they didn't discover a carnyx. 🙏😢🥰
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A sea-panther from the amazing Orphic mosaic at Littlecote #Roman Villa, Wiltshire.
c.AD 350 - 365.
📸 me
#MosaicMonday
#RomanBritain
c.AD 350 - 365.
📸 me
#MosaicMonday
#RomanBritain
January 5, 2026 at 9:27 AM
A sea-panther from the amazing Orphic mosaic at Littlecote #Roman Villa, Wiltshire.
c.AD 350 - 365.
📸 me
#MosaicMonday
#RomanBritain
c.AD 350 - 365.
📸 me
#MosaicMonday
#RomanBritain
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This Roman mosaic floor was found during excavations of a townhouse outside the walls of Colchester. Created in the 2nd century, it was poorly repaired with pink mortar just before the house was demolished c. AD 300. It is now on display in Colchester Castle @colmuseums.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
January 5, 2026 at 9:26 AM
This Roman mosaic floor was found during excavations of a townhouse outside the walls of Colchester. Created in the 2nd century, it was poorly repaired with pink mortar just before the house was demolished c. AD 300. It is now on display in Colchester Castle @colmuseums.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
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There have been various discussions of the interpretation of this phrase for many years (and that with his feline friend), and one possibility is that this is the bull's name - 'the bull called man-killer' - rather than just a description. Seems likely, I think.
January 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
There have been various discussions of the interpretation of this phrase for many years (and that with his feline friend), and one possibility is that this is the bull's name - 'the bull called man-killer' - rather than just a description. Seems likely, I think.