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Cameleon reenactor with a taste for adventure and halo.

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

Lovely to see all the beautiful flowers created and put up around the museum by the Prosecco and Pearls ladies and the WI 💐

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

A group of French researchers trained around 200 re-enactors to test how hoplite warfare and battlefield routs may have actually played out. This is insane

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

Have a good #StarWarsDay everyone from @RomanCaerleon #Maythe4thBeWithYou

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

‘The testudo (tortoise) formation is so marvellously strong that men can walk upon it, and whenever they come to a narrow ravine, even horses and vehicles can be driven over it. Owing to the excellent shelter it affords, the troops often deploy the testudo as they approach some fort in a frontal assault, even using the shields as a ramp to scale the very walls.’

– Cassius Dio, 49.30.

(Video: Lorica Romana re-enactment group at the Great Roman Games, Nîmes)

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

Felix sit natalis dies! Time to raise a glass from the wild frontier of Isca (Caerleon). Happy 2779th birthday to the great city of Rome 🎂🍷🎉🥳 here’s a coin featuring Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf from the collection at the National Roman Legion Museum.

[Kevin Wilbraham @KPW1453]

Ancient Roman altars found in Scotland to go on display https://t.co/rweozyAsM7

[HistoryandHeritageYorkshire @GenealogyBeech]

The crypt at Lastingham, under St Mary's Church, is a remarkably preserved, intact Norman crypt dating from the late 11th century (around 1078), unique in Britain for its nave and aisles, built as an unfinished abbey and containing early Anglo-Saxon fragments. It's a significant

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

As the Odyssey is rather popular at the moment, here’s a Roman gem stone featuring Odysseus and his faithful dog, Argos. It can be seen at St Fagans National History Museum.

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

As the Saturnalia is coming to an end, here’s our Saturnalia Showdown gladiator fight from last year ⚔️

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

On this day the Romans celebrated the Sigillaria. This was a day of gift giving, usually small and cheap items like wax or clay figurines and objects that brought light such as candles and oil lamps like these from Roman Caerleon. Io Saturnalia!

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

Putting together my boys slightly customised Alexander the Great playmobil figures for Christmas

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

Hope everyone is enjoying the winter solstice ☀️😎 here’s Sol Invictus, the unconquerable sun god, on some gem stones from Amgueddfa Lleng Rufeinig Cymru - National Roman Legion Museum

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

The #Saturnalia festivities included a lot of drinking and merriment. Statius recounts a “December tipsy with much wine, and laughing mirth and wanton wit”. Here is wine amphorae from Italy and on display at Roman Caerleon. Io Saturnalia!

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

On this day the Romans celebrated the feast of Opalia. This was in honour of Saturn’s wife, Ops, the goddess of abundance. Like the rest of #Saturnalia, the day was filled with feasting and fun. Here is a selection of foods that were eaten at Roman Caerleon.

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

On the 1st day of Saturnalia everyone in a household, including freedmen and slaves, would throw dice to choose the ‘Saturnalicus Princeps’ or Lord of Misrule, who presided over the days’ events. Here we have some Bone and Bronze dice from Roman Caerleon #FestiveFinds

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

IO Saturnalia! 🎉🥳🍷 #NewProfilePic

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

Awesome to have the Llys Awel licking dogs go in for our new exhibition, Animals of the Gods, at the National Roman Legion Museum. FindsFriday

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

“Only one among us keeps his Spartan reserve. Only he. Only our king”

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

Great to see this guy again today at the National Roman Legion Museum during a very exciting meeting about some additions we hope to add to the museum. More tweets to follow… #FindsFriday

[Verdun Howells @ServiliusPulex]

As it’s the Roman Emperor Trajan’s birthday here’s a dedication to him @RomanCaerleon . The inscription, erected in AD 100, may have adorned the south-west gate. #RomanFortThursday