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Eight XXL leather shoes have been recovered from Magna, a Roman-era fort along Hadrian's Wall. Archaeologists excavating a ...
A massive altar dedicated to an eastern cult deity has emerged during excavations of a Roman fort in northern England. Weighing 1.5 tons, the four-foot high ornately carved stone relic, was ...
Down the drain is where British archaeologists recently discovered 36 artfully engraved semiprecious stones, in an ancient bathhouse at the site of a Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall in Carlisle ...
It is believed the site was used through the Dark Ages, although it was difficult to trace what what went on there after 1092 when King William II England built the first medieval castle within the ...
Its remains were found inside a large Roman fort attached to Hadrian’s Wall, the northernmost point of the expansive Roman Empire. ... Carlisle is about 100 miles south of Edinburgh, Scotland.
The stretch near Settlingstones is thought to be a section of the Stanegate, which linked the Roman fort at Corbridge to the Roman base at Carlisle ...
A new book details the stories of those who lived, worked, and were buried in Carlisle nearly 2,000 years ago. The publication, titled "Life and Death in Roman Carlisle: Excavations at 107-117 ...
A rare archaeological object, thought to be the only one of its type in the Roman Empire, has been discovered in Carlisle. A lump of a soft mysterious purple substance was discovered in the drains ...
Excavations of the northern defensive ditches of Magna Fort have revealed 32 shoes buried in the “semi-anaerobic low oxygen deposits,” according to a July 2 news release from the Vindolanda Charitable ...
The 2nd-century Greco-Roman scholar Julius Pollux even immortalized the discovery of the pigment in his story about Hercules’s dog finding and biting a sea snail, which stained its tongue purple.
Archaeologists have started excavating a Roman fort for the final time, meaning some ancient artefacts may never see the light of day. They are investigating remains at Birdoswald, in Brampton, on ...