The headquarters building (principia) was the heart of any Roman fort. The one at Caernarfon (Segontium) in North Wales, first established AD77 in Agricola's campaign, had an underground strongroom to store the really valuable stuff. #RomanFortThursday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

Barrack block and colourfully illuminated bath-house at Caerleon fort (Isca) in South Wales, the base of Legio II Augusta.

Off to the baths at Roman Ostia for #MosaicMonday. Meet Epictetus Buticosus. He is holding a bucket and stick (maybe a strigil?) and might have been the caretaker or an attendant at the bath-house that now bears his name. The building is early 2nd century (under Trajan).

Corinium Dobunnorum was the Romano-British settlement at #Cirencester in the present county of Gloucestershire. Its 2nd C walls enclosed the second-largest area of a city in #Roman #Britain. It was the tribal capital of the Dobunni. #History #RomanSiteSaturday

Surviving up to 12 metres in height, the remains of the baths at Valognes (Gallo-Roman Alauna) - just south of Cherbourg, France - are worth a detour if you’ve arrived on the ferry. #RomanSitesSaturday

Fancy a drink (and perhaps more) after a hard day's work? Where better to go than the thermopolium (bar) in the Via di Diana at ancient Ostia, a 3rd century installation housed in an earlier building. The fresco on the wall suggests what might be on the menu.

Roman changing room (apodyterium) in the bath-house just outside the fort at Chesters (Cilurnum) on Hadrian's Wall, UK. The niches were probably to store bathers' clothing. #RomanFortsThursday #HadriansWall #Romans

One for #HillfortsWednesday. Hod Hill's Iron Age hillfort (Dorset, UK) has a Roman fort in its north west corner, dating from the early years of the occupation.

Roman settlement made it across the Rhine in what's now southern Germany. The thermal baths at Badenweiler (started late 1st cent. AD) are worth a visit. It's still a spa town.

A rare Roman bronze vessel known as the Berlanga Cup, one of only a handful of its kind ever found, has been discovered in central Spain, offering a striking glimpse into the movements and memories of soldiers stationed along Hadrian’s Wall. arkeonews.net/rare-2000-ye...

And closer to home, here is the gilt bronze head of Sulis Minerva, a suitably Romanised local deity. One of the highlights at the excellent Roman Baths museum - in Bath, UK (where else?). www.romanbaths.co.uk

The first post on this new account can only be the heart of Ancient Rome - the Forum Romanum. The austere building towards the top right is the Curia Iulia - the old Senate House - while the three surviving columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux dominate the foreground.