Inchtuthil is the site of a #Roman legionary fortress situated on a natural platform overlooking the north bank of the River Tay southwest of Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross, #Scotland (Roman Caledonia). #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology #History #RomanBritain

Aldborough. What a splendid site. Those mosaics. The look on that horse/dog/creature's face. And a placename that indicates awareness of those who came before as 'the old fortification'. Plus for philologists, a chance to get excited about the initial vowel. It's got it all.

In #RomanBritain processions & celebrations starting in the #theatre could progress to the #temple as a full part of the ceremonial. #Games played a vital role in the activities, especially those linked directly to religious festivals but these also included enactment of #myth.

#MosaicMonday A wonderful Sea-horse from the #Roman Palace at #Fishbourne #Sussex.🤩 Sea-horses and sea-panthers surround the central medallion of a cupid astride a dolphin. Go visit if you get the chance. It really is a superb site. 👇 @romanpalace.bsky.social #RomanBritain #Archaeology

#MosaicMonday #RomanBritain

Fragment of 4th century mosaic from the #Roman bathhouse of Lydney #Gloucestershire Beautifully captured in watercolour by the great archaeologist, Tessa Verney Wheeler in 1929 🤩 Original painting held by @antiquaries.bsky.social #MosaicMonday

Detail from the Thruxton Bacchus Mosaic, probably representing one of the seasons. Discovered at Thruxton in Hampshire, the mosaic probably came from a villa. Dating to around 250-350 AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday

#RomanBritain From the fortress gates at York. The 9th Legion founded York. They were replaced by the 6th Legion in 120. It is not known for sure what happened to the 9th, though there are traces of their presence in the Rhineland after 120. #Archaeology #Roman #History

Neath- the remains of a 1st C #Roman auxiliary fort known as Nidum stands on the west bank of the River Neath. Remains of 2 gateways can be seen, & the line of a rampart wall. Initial excavation showed a gateway for a 2nd century #fort built of stone. #RomanFortThursday #History #RomanBritain

Neath- the remains of a 1st C #Roman auxiliary fort known as Nidum stands on the west bank of the River Neath. Remains of 2 gateways can be seen, & the line of a rampart wall. Initial excavation showed a gateway for a 2nd century #fort built of stone. #RomanFortThursday #History #RomanBritain

#RomanFortThursday Forden Gaer, probably the Lavobrinta of the Ravenna Cosmography, lies on the line of the road which connected Caersws and Wroxeter (Viroconium). The fort occupies a slight rise above the east bank of the River Severn. #Archaeology #History #Roman #Military

Moridunum Demetarum The #Roman site at #Carmarthen has been under discussion for a long time. It has been identified with the Moridunum of the Antonine Itinerary, and with Ptolemy's Moridounon. Its position was ideal for a naval station. #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #History #RomanBritain

Samian bowl (Form 30) by the potter MARTIALIS South Gaulish AD 50-60. #Usk #RomanBritain #Archaeology #pottery

The ‘Great Bath’ - the main pool of the Roman baths complex at Bath (Aquae Sulis) which was constructed in around 70 AD. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Bath

Moridunum Demetarum The #Roman site at #Carmarthen has been under discussion for a long time. It has been identified with the Moridunum of the Antonine Itinerary, and with Ptolemy's Moridounon. Its position was ideal for a naval station. #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #History #RomanBritain

Site Name: Segontium, Caernarfon Grid Reference: SH 485 624 Collection Method: excavation Date: 1923. Notes: N.E. wall of XX, on lower footings in clay of partition running N.E. #RomanBritain #Archaeology #History

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A #Roman #ship was found in 1910 on the site of the County Hall, on the south bank of the River #Thames opposite #Westminster, #London. The ship had been abandoned at the edge of the River. The construction of the ship is dated to about 300 AD. #RomanBritain #Archaeology

#MosaicMonday Low Ham villa Somerset. The mythical #Roman hero #Aeneas depicted out hunting on a large celebrated villa bath-suite #mosaic. The floor is thought to have been laid by mosaicists from Ilchester or Dorchester 4th century. #Archaeology #History #RomanBritain #Ancient #Art

#MosaicMonday Low Ham villa Somerset. The mythical #Roman hero #Aeneas depicted out hunting on a large celebrated villa bath-suite #mosaic. The floor is thought to have been laid by mosaicists from Ilchester or Dorchester 4th century. #Archaeology #History #RomanBritain #Ancient #Art

Bronze Portrait of Marcus Aurelius. AD 160-170 AD. Found at a Roman frontier fort at Dunaszekcsó (ancient Lugo) on the banks of the Danube in Hungary. Currently at the state exhibition, Rheinisches landesmuseum, Trier. On loan from Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

#FindsFriday Originally set into a signet ring, this jasper intaglio was discovered at Aldborough #Roman Town, North #Yorkshire. It depicts a hare in a chariot, pulled by a cockerel. Intaglios have been found at Roman sites across #Britain, depicting people, animals and gods. #History #art

#TombTuesday Archaeologists discover rare liquid gypsum burial of 'high-status individual' from #RomanBritain. The newfound stone coffin that had gypsum poured over it in #Roman times in what is now England. (See Alt ) #History (Image credit: Courtesy of Headland Archaeology)

Severus marches o0n! To Carlisle!!!

Pot of gold! Rare Roman gold coin hoard uncovered near Didcot, Oxfordshire, by a metal detectorist in 1995. The pot contained 126 gold aurei, struck between AD 54-160. It would have taken a legionary soldier over ten years to earn this large sum! Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Hoard of 160 gold aureus coins in a bronze jug, with two bronze #coins in the neck of the jug to disguise the worth of contents. Discovered below the floor of a #Roman house in Corbridge, Northumberland in 1911. Circa AD 160. British Museum. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain

Metchley Fort was a #Roman fort in what is now #Birmingham. It lies on the course of a Roman road, Icknield Street, and the University Birmingham in Edgbaston. The fort was constructed soon after the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43. #RomanBritain #History

#RomanFortThursday The vexillation fort at Clyro is a large site, covering roughly 26 acres. It was established around A.D. 60 as part of #Roman attempts to subdue the #Silures tribe of mid #Wales 📸C.R. Musson, 19/10/1992. #RomanBritain #History #Archaeology

Metchley Fort was a #Roman fort in what is now #Birmingham. It lies on the course of a Roman road, Icknield Street, and the University Birmingham in Edgbaston. The fort was constructed soon after the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43. #RomanBritain #History

Roman villa with swimming pool marked out in Hemel Hempstead - BBC News www.bbc.com/news/article...

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#MosaicMonday one of the four seasons depicted in the mosaic found at Caerwent, #Newport. #RomanBritain

#Silchester #amphitheatre looking through one of the entrances. A stone revetment wall contained the seating banks which were probably fitted with wooden seats. The visible remains belong to the early 3rdC AD but at least 2 predecessors lie underneath. #RomanBritain #Archaeology #RomanSiteSaturday

Britain's economy thrived after the withdrawal of the Roman Empire. We had thought industries collapsed when the Romans left Britain, but archaeological evidence tells a different story.

Scholars long assumed that when Roman rule over Britain collapsed around A.D. 400, the island's economy tanked. But new analysis at an ancient metal processing site in Yorkshire suggests: maybe not. archaeology.org/news/2025/09/15/britains-economy-remained-surprisingly-robust-after-roman-collapse/

The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩 The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 by me #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology

The skeleton was located away from a nearby #Roman cemetery & its position suggested that it had been thrown into a ditch rather than buried. The head & upper vertebrae were missing; this could have resulted from digging of a ditch for modern services. #Archaeology #FindsFriday #History (4/4)

Forced labour and enslavement were features of the #Roman Empire. This discovery of this shackled skeleton has been the first of its type in #Britain and researchers believe that it is the ‘clearest’ case of burial of an enslaved individual found in the UK. (3/4)👇 #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #History

However in 2015 builders came across the #bones when they were constructing a conservatory at a house in Great Casterton. #Police were called and subsequent radiocarbon dating showed the remains were from between AD226 to AD427! (2/4) 👇 #FindsFriday #Archaeology #History

#FindsFriday It’s no great surprise to find #Roman remains if you dig in your garden at Great Casterton. The crossing point of the River Gwash was the location of a fort and the next significant town north of Durobrivae on Ermine Street. A 🧵(1/4) #Archaeology #History👇

#MosaicMonday #Roman mosaic from a villa in East Coker (southwest England). The object dates to the 4th century CE. On the mosaic, we see two hunters carrying a hunted deer and a hunting dog. #History #AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanBritain

On display in the excellent Museum of Somerset.

#MosaicMonday #Roman mosaic from a villa in East Coker (southwest England). The object dates to the 4th century CE. On the mosaic, we see two hunters carrying a hunted deer and a hunting dog. #History #AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanBritain

They forgot the obligatory „archeologists were stunned/ shocked”

#RomanBritain #Archaeology #History 👇 www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/2546081...

Is it #FindsFriday already? 😮 Spectacular La Tene bi-metal plaques unearthed by picnickers in 1963 from under a boulder on the slopes of Cader Idris mountain in north Wales. Pretty lucky! Part of the spectacular Late Iron Age Talyllyn hoard 🤩. Now on display in National Museum St Fagans 📷 My own

#RomanFortThursday On the edge of an East Manchester modern housing estate, on a prominence overlooking the valley below, stands the well defined outline of a Flavian Roman fort. It was on a road out of Mamucium #Roman fort, heading eastwards. (See.Alt) #Archaeology #History

Today's love from the Roman world! Next week, to Campania! Stay tuned!!!

A few recent bunk “discoveries” have convinced me that drawing alignment lines on maps is usually bad practice. Sites were often aligned with physical features (e.g. entrances or avenues), but you can find alignments to landscape features pretty much anywhere… 🧐 #archaeology

This cute little chapel in Langon, Brittany is actually a repurposed Roman bathhouse thought to date to the 4th century. Inside it can be found an ancient fresco of Venus emerging from the waves (although I didn't get to see that as it was locked on the date I visited...). #RomanSiteSaturday.