That looks .... familiar ... and it is publication day for Roman Cavalry Helmets, after all! www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/roman-cav...

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/...

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 o

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

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 o

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

“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. #RomanBritain

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...

I found a spring that is definitely sacred to the nymphs

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I am excited to announce that I will be talking about my adventures in search of Roman Scotland at the Boswell Book Festival @bozzybookfest.bsky.social at Dumfries House on Sunday 10th May. In person or online tickets available here: shorturl.at/qjcGm #RomanFortThursday

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.

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 open.spotify.com/episode/6DsA... #romans #rome #history #archaeology #glass #romanbluesky

#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.

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...

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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 🏺

Moments like these are why I think we need to reinstitute a college of augurs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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

#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

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. #FrescoFriday

#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.

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...

A real treat to be back in Pompeii again. A glimpse of the House of the Vettii in the evening light. 📸 my own

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.

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

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 #RomanBritain

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 #RomanBritain

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 #RomanBritain

A recreated Roman watchtower from Burgsalach on the German frontier. Similar structures existed across the Gask Ridge in Perthshire

Episode 5 is now available: Roman Timber: Roofs, Doors and Forgotten Walls #romans #rome #history #archaeology #brick #tiles

For #FindsFriday 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.

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. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain

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 #Roman fort at Waddon Hill #Dorset Hopefully not used on any of the Durotriges ! 😬 Now in the fantastic Bridport Museum 📷 Feb 2023 #RomanFortThursday

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

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

Enjoyed watching this talk tonight, from the splendidly gothic Prof. Ronald Hutton. #Mithras 🌤️ www.youtube.com/live/Cl8_X89...

'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

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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Come on a virtual tour of the House of the Tragic Poet (also called The Homeric House or The Iliadic House) in #Pompeii care of Flyover Zone's Yorescape. #AncientBluesky superspl.at/view?id=6431...

'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

#MosaicMonday The Orpheus mosaic from Littlecote #Roman Villa in Berkshire. Its obscure iconography has been seen as evidence of the pagan revival in late C.4th #RomanBritain, as Orpheus charms circling animals, seasons & goddesses with his music. Much restored, the floor has significant wow factor.

A wonderful combination of Roman realism and Celtic linear decoration. And a decapitated barbarian too. 🤩

Happy 1950th birthday, Hadrian! 🎂 #Hadrian1950 followinghadrian.com/2026/01/24/f...

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