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Recently I got the chance to visit Winchester City Museum, you might have seen some of my other visits to museums and siteson here (e.g. Richborough, Worthing, The Mithraeum or specific exhibitons at the British Museum such as Feminine Power, Legion or Persia to Greece). However, this visit had a personal resonance. Around 15 years […]
Winchester Museum visit: Roman, and personal, history. Read More »
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You may have read in the news about a gruesome discovery – a bite mark attributed to a lion found on a skeleton from a 1,800-year-old cemetery near York. This places the event within the Roman period. The individual was a male, aged 26-35 and the bite mark was found on his pelvis. Perhaps he
Venator, Gladiator or worse in York? Read More »
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The Mithraeum, a temple to Mithras, sits some 7 metres below the current street level and was discovered by chance in the early 1950s. At this time London was still carrying the scars of the blitz, the temple’s ruins were found in a bombsite. At the time the city was undergoing a rebuild and the
The London Mithraeum – a secret Roman temple. Read More »
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I recently attended a coin workshop day organised by Brighton & Hove Archaeological Society (well worth joining if you are in the area). I got to hold some very interesting Roman and Celtic coins and learned about a link involving Philip II of Macedon (Alexander the Great’s dad) to the latter type. If you want
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A question I was recently asked concerned the re-use of kit in the Roman army. What happened to the kit when a soldier either left (e.g. retirement) or died? Well when I visited the Legion exhibition I came across this helmet which gives a good example. You’d expect the Roman army to be efficient and
Roman helmet with a few careful owners. Read More »
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In 2017 work was being done outside of Cambridge in the UK. These were upgrades to the A14 road and though needed weren’t exactly headline grabbing. However what they found allowed experts to piece together a tale which linked Roman Britain to the easternmost tips of the Roman Empire. Whilst digging the remains of a
Sarmatia and Roman Britain: an amazing find. Read More »
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A Roman bridgehead into Britain. Recently Richborough Roman Fort has had a new addition, or rather a new version of something which stood there when the invasion of AD43 saw legionaries stepping foot on British soil. This was the reconstruction of a gateway of that period (you can read specifically about this here). The gateway
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The Isle of Wight was subjegated by the general, and eventual emperor, Vespasian in AD 44. In the successive centuries a number of villas emerged, perhaps the most well known being Brading Roman Villa. Though started in the 1st century AD further buildings were added and by the 4th century the villa was well established
Brading Roman Villa and the curious mosaic. Read More »
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Recently I passed through Cirencester, I’d loved to have stopped longer and visited the Corinium Museum which looked very interesting. However, I did managed to squeeze in a trip to the Roman ampitheatre there. It’s free, has parking and is wheelchair accessible. Be warned it is a bit hilly but the paths are well kept.
Roman Amphitheatre at Cirencester. Read More »