A VARIETY of centuries-old artefacts were discovered using a metal detector in a Yorkshire field. The “once-in-a-lifetime” ...
Researchers have found a Roman brooch in the foundation of an Iron Age house in Scotland, but what was it doing there?
Swathes of Britain had already been conquered – Roman camps, forts and roads had sprung up in lands once dominated by tribes of Celts; precious gold, tin and iron had been seized along with ...
Despite the hardships, many who had been posted to Britain settled there, taking plots of land near remote Roman forts. Rome was not always able to honor the important promise of land. In 14 AD ...
In 60 AD, Britain had been a Roman province for less than 20 years ... and the province was held by just three legions and a few forts. They managed to keep a fragile control on Britain by ...
The hole full of bones—the largest ritual deposit discovered of its kind dating to the Roman Britain period—gives archaeologists hints about the ways that conquered British did—and didn’t ...
The governor of Britain had a palace in London ... It showed the distance to the nearest fort, Kanovium (the Roman for Caerhun in north Wales). Aqueducts were built to supply towns with water ...
If the inhabitants had established regular trade with Roman Britain, we might expect to find ... in the century meant there were no Roman forts nearby at the time the dwelling was built.
During the Roman occupation of Britain, constant cultural interchange ... explore other objects in the timeline Loudoun Hill Roman Fort second century AD View more objects from people in Glasgow ...