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History/classics MA. Living with DPDR. "The climate is wretched” - Tacitus
#RomanBritain
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A fragment of a military intelligence report from the Roman fort at Vindolanda, on the northern frontier of
#RomanBritain
. The thin, postcard-sized wooden tablet describes the fighting style of the native Britons, disparagingly referred to as BRITTUNCULI or 'Little Brits.'
#EpigraphyTuesday
over 1 year ago
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Roman Military Equipment
1 day ago
That looks .... familiar ... and it is publication day for Roman Cavalry Helmets, after all!
www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/roman-cav...
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Maxime Guénette
15 days ago
Our conference on Digital Humanities applied to Romano-British sacred space is around the corner! You can attend online or in person by booking here:
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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A reconstructed turret at Vindolanda gives an impression of how Hadrian’s Wall might have looked 1,800 years ago. It’s based on surviving remains including those from the well-preserved Banks East turret (pictured).
#RomanBritain
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Roman Sites
12 days ago
The octagonal lighthouse (pharos) at Dover Castle, UK is one of the oldest and best-preserved in the Roman world, although the top section is medieval stonework. The walls of the church next door (St Mary-in-Castro ~1000AD) contain some Roman masonry.
#archaeology
#RomanArchaeology
#lighthouses
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A reconstructed turret at Vindolanda gives an impression of how Hadrian’s Wall might have looked 1,800 years ago. It’s based on surviving remains including those from the well-preserved Banks East turret (pictured).
#RomanBritain
@vindolandatrust.bsky.social
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Roman Sites
15 days ago
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
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“The prospects are not grand, but extensive and rather awful,” wrote William Hutton in 1801 who was dead wrong. Glorious to be up on Hadrian’s Wall today.
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marybeard
17 days ago
Come and join me at 92Y in NYC next week 13 May. Talking about my new book Talking Classics. Details here.
www.92ny.org/event/mary-b...
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Dr Francis Young
18 days ago
I found a spring that is definitely sacred to the nymphs
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Cotswold Archaeology’s Mick Aston Annual Lecture 2026 - Corinium Museum
Britain ceasing to be part of the Roman Empire was one of the most formative episodes in our history, yet research on Late Antique Britain has
https://coriniummuseum.org/event/cotswold-archaeologys-mick-aston-annual-lecture-2026/
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Dr Alan Montgomery
about 1 month ago
I am excited to announce that I will be talking about my adventures in search of Roman Scotland at the Boswell Book Festival
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at Dumfries House on Sunday 10th May. In person or online tickets available here:
shorturl.at/qjcGm
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Northumberart
about 2 months ago
It's 3 yrs now since my husband
@pottedhistory.bsky.social
and I visited the replica Roman "Villa Ventorum" at The Newt in Somerset. We went to see how his replica pots fitted into the villa and museum. It's always great to see items displayed in the context for which they were originally intended.
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Build Like a Roman - Podcast
about 2 months ago
Episode 10 is now available: Roman Glass: Roman Glass, Sand, Soda and Sunlight or... Roman Glass: One Lump or Two? Apple
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
Spotify
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#rome
#history
#archaeology
#glass
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Roman Glass - Sand, Soda, and Empire
Podcast Episode · Build Like a Roman · 26 March · 16min
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/roman-glass-sand-soda-and-empire/id1873634566?i=1000757558947&r=14
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Bob Fry
about 2 months ago
#HillfortsWednesday
Uley Bury is an multi-vallate, hill fort dating from around 300 B.C. It uses the Cotswold scarp to enhance its defences. A Romano-British temple was nearby and excavations in the 1970s revealed many wondrous objects such as a head of Mercury & several curse tablets.
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Roman Roads
2 months ago
It's our last talk of the season this coming Thursday (March 26) evening. We've now caught up a bit so all the previous talks are available on YouTbe as well.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-the-roa...
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On the road in the Western Roman Empire, by Prof. Tony King
Tony King takes a look at some of the settlements that developed along Roman roads from Italy, through Gaul, and finally to Britain.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-the-road-in-the-western-roman-empire-by-prof-tony-king-tickets-1984926337107?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true
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#FindsFriday
Two scenes from the amphitheatre on Samian sherds. In one a man spears a lion during a staged beast hunt ('venatio'). In the other 2 gladiators face off. The pieces are now in
@coriniummuseum.bsky.social
in Cirencester, just round the corner from the old amphitheatre. 📸 me
#RomanBritain
2 months ago
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#FrescoFriday
Venus Pompeiana, patron goddess of Pompeii, arriving in a chariot drawn by 4 elephants. She holds a sceptre and rudder and is accompanied by Cupid, holding a mirror. But it's the elephants that steal the show with their oddly modern pencil-sketch quality. 📸 me C.1, Pompeii Antiquarium
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Two scenes from the amphitheatre on Samian sherds. In one a man spears a lion during a staged beast hunt ('venatio'). In the other 2 gladiators face off. The pieces are now in
@coriniummuseum.bsky.social
in Cirencester, just round the corner from the old amphitheatre. 📸 me
#RomanBritain
2 months ago
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#FrescoFriday
Venus Pompeiana, patron goddess of Pompeii, arriving in a chariot drawn by 4 elephants. She holds a sceptre and rudder and is accompanied by Cupid, holding a mirror. But it's the elephants that steal the show with their oddly modern pencil-sketch quality. 📸 me C.1, Pompeii Antiquarium
2 months ago
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Becky Wallower
2 months ago
#ReliefWednesday
from water tank, featuring rather grumpy Venus bathing in a stream attended by nymphs holding fluffy towel + water jug. From High Rochester Fort,
#Roman
Bremenium: place of the roaring stream. Built on Hadrian's wall/Dere St for border control. Gt North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle 🏺
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Templum
2 months ago
Moments like these are why I think we need to reinstitute a college of augurs.
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Red kite with sausage roll snapped by Banbury photographer
Mark Hopkins managed to get some pictures of the bird from his back garden.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2g290ve2vo
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History and Heritage Yorkshire
3 months ago
Romans will once again descend on York as the Eboracum Roman Festival returns from 16–31 May 2026, with events across the city and in York Museum Gardens. The festival’s highlight, the Living History Encampment on 23–24 May, will transform the gardens into a bustling Roman
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#MosaicMonday
The House of the Mosaic Atrium where the deformation of the floor caused by the eruption of Vesuvius which buried Herculaneum is strikingly apparent. The house was one of the most opulent in the town with a sweeping sea view. 📸 me
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Lindsay Powell FRHistS
2 months ago
Birds and plants with a herm in a garden depicted on a wallpainting from Herculaneum, Italy, C1st. In the collections of National Archaeological Museum of Naples, inv. 8763. Photo is my own.
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#EpigraphyTuesday
One of the Herculaneum scrolls, preserved in charred form by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79. Ever since the scrolls' discovery attempts have been made to read them. This example sits in the Papyrus Unrolling Machine designed by Fr. Antonio Piaggio c.1756: now in the MANN, Naples.
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Dr Toby Driver
3 months ago
I'm delighted to be lecturing at Oriel Môn/Anglesey Gallery in March about the incredible Iron Age remains on the island, including about recent work with
@richardosgood.bsky.social
at Llyn Cerrig Bach & our
#RCAHMW
recording of coastal forts. See you there!
www.orielmon.org/en/events/dr...
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Druids and Furies by Dr Toby Driver
Finding the Iron Age people of Ynys Môn and north-west Wales
https://www.orielmon.org/en/events/druids-and-furies-by-dr-toby-driver
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A real treat to be back in Pompeii again. A glimpse of the House of the Vettii in the evening light. 📸 my own
3 months ago
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Templum
3 months ago
Although it was built almost 300 years earlier (around 262), the temple at Pagans Hill, Somerset has a very similar layout and dimensions to the Basilica of San Vitale. Both are octagonal, east facing, an outer ambulatory with vaulted ceilings, and and inner cella defined by arched piers.
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Not that dissimilar (in its sequence of Aeneas, Dido and Ascanius on galloping horses) to the same hunting scene at Low Ham in Britannia. A common model?
#mosaicmonday
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Fighting erotes (cupids) from Bignor
#Roman
Villa in W. Sussex. One is dressed as a retarius gladiator (net and trident) and the other as a secutor (sword and shield). 3rd/4th century
#MosaicMonday
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Among the otherwise low flint walls of Littlecote
#Roman
Villa’s residential buildings, a stepped cold plunge pool and a hypocausted hot tub bring home that real people once lived, shivered and luxuriated here. 1,700 years ago. 📷 me
#RomanSiteSaturday
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Among the otherwise low flint walls of Littlecote
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Villa’s residential buildings, a stepped cold plunge pool and a hypocausted hot tub bring home that real people once lived, shivered and luxuriated here. 1,700 years ago. 📷 me
#RomanSiteSaturday
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Roman Scotland
3 months ago
A recreated Roman watchtower from Burgsalach on the German frontier. Similar structures existed across the Gask Ridge in Perthshire
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Build Like a Roman - Podcast
3 months ago
Episode 5 is now available: Roman Timber: Roofs, Doors and Forgotten Walls
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Roman Timber: Roofs, Doors and Forgotten Walls
Podcast Episode · Build Like a Roman · 12/02/2026 · 21m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/build-like-a-roman/id1873634566?i=1000749487993
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PCA
3 months ago
For
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we’re celebrating the Roman festival of Fornacalia, the Feast of Ovens, held each February. Baking hearths were honoured as the goddess Fornax to ensure good bread & large ovens in the City of London show how commercial baking fed Roman London, with an iron shovel found with them.
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A sinuous tinned-bronze brooch in the shape of a greyhound found at Fulbeck, Lincolnshire in 2005. His sinuous form was characteristic of Romano-British art and his eye might originally have been inlaid with enamel, a British speciality. This good boy dates from the 2nd C.
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Durotriges Dig
4 months ago
An iron dagger (with wooden handle) and iron scabbard (with gold and silver inlay) found in the 1960s excavation of the mid 1st c AD
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fort at Waddon Hill
#Dorset
Hopefully not used on any of the Durotriges ! 😬 Now in the fantastic Bridport Museum 📷 Feb 2023
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This partly-restored wall painting showing Cupid in an architectural fantasia is reminiscent of frescos from Pompeii. But it was found in Southwark,
#Londinium
and originally decorated a 2nd Century bathhouse. Materials included gold leaf and fancy imported red cinnabar.
#FrescoFriday
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4 months ago
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This partly-restored wall painting showing Cupid in an architectural fantasia is reminiscent of frescos from Pompeii. But it was found in Southwark,
#Londinium
and originally decorated a 2nd Century bathhouse. Materials included gold leaf and fancy imported red cinnabar.
#FrescoFriday
#RomanBritain
4 months ago
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Enjoyed watching this talk tonight, from the splendidly gothic Prof. Ronald Hutton.
#Mithras
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www.youtube.com/live/Cl8_X89...
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Mithras: Master of Mystery - Ronald Hutton
YouTube video by Gresham College
https://www.youtube.com/live/Cl8_X8917OM?si=S1WCcsjTBiASU8Y2
4 months ago
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'Victory' and inscription recording construction of a section of the Antonine Wall, AD140s. "For the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, father of his country, a detachment of the 20th Legion Valeria Victrix built 4,411 feet." RIB 2208.
#EpigraphyTuesday
#ReliefWednesday
4 months ago
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Tony Divey
4 months ago
For
#TowerTuesday
here’s the tower from St Albans Cathedral. For a bonus
#TilesonTuesday
there’s also plenty of reused Roman tiles
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4 months ago
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Lindsay Powell FRHistS
4 months ago
Come on a virtual tour of the House of the Tragic Poet (also called The Homeric House or The Iliadic House) in
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care of Flyover Zone's Yorescape.
#AncientBluesky
superspl.at/view?id=6431...
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House of Tragic poet - SuperSplat
The House of the Tragic Poet (also called The Homeric House or The Iliadic House) is a Roman house in Pompeii, Italy dating to the 2nd century BCE. The house...
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'Victory' and inscription recording construction of a section of the Antonine Wall, AD140s. "For the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, father of his country, a detachment of the 20th Legion Valeria Victrix built 4,411 feet." RIB 2208.
#EpigraphyTuesday
#ReliefWednesday
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#MosaicMonday
The Orpheus mosaic from Littlecote
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Villa in Berkshire. Its obscure iconography has been seen as evidence of the pagan revival in late C.4th
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, as Orpheus charms circling animals, seasons & goddesses with his music. Much restored, the floor has significant wow factor.
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A wonderful combination of Roman realism and Celtic linear decoration. And a decapitated barbarian too. 🤩
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Following Hadrian
4 months ago
Happy 1950th birthday, Hadrian! 🎂
#Hadrian1950
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Felicem diem natalem, Hadriane! 🎂 FOLLOWING HADRIAN
Happy 1950th birthday, Hadrian! In keeping with tradition, I baked Hadrian a birthday cake. This year, I chose Cato’s recipe for savillum (a kind of cheesecake), one of my favourite sweet cakes fro…
https://followinghadrian.com/2026/01/24/felicem-diem-natalem-hadriane-%f0%9f%8e%82-4/
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🤩Online tickets are free🤩
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