Two rare Roman cavalry swords discovered in a Gloucestershire field have sparked the excavation of a previously unknown Iron ...

3. Discover a Village Built on Ancient Foundations Bowes sits directly atop the site of Lavatrae, a Roman fort that once guarded the road from York to Carlisle. While the Roman ruins are no longer ...

The UK’s long-distance paths are a walker’s dream: from rugged mountains and moors to windswept coasts and gentle hills. Each ...

Eight XXL leather shoes have been recovered from Magna, a Roman-era fort along Hadrian's Wall. Archaeologists excavating a ...

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 ...

Two well-preserved Roman shoes from 2,000 years ago were recently found by volunteers at the Magna fort in the United Kingdom. The find "immediately drew impressed gasps" from the staff.

A section of a Roman column unearthed during an archaeological dig is just "the tip of the iceberg" of what could lie below the ground. The column was found by volunteers digging at the cricket ...

Uncovering Roman Carlisle Volunteers said the column was an important find Federica Bedendo BBC News, North East and Cumbria Mike Zeller BBC Radio Cumbria 13 June 2025 ...

About 2,000 years ago, Roman soldiers dug a deep and narrow defensive ditch on the outside of a fort in an attempt to stymie oncoming enemies who weren’t paying attention or misjudged the depth.

NORTHUMBERLAND, ENGLAND—According to a report by Live Science, archaeologists working at the Roman fort of Magna in northern England were stunned when a peculiar object was recently pulled from ...