RomanSites

Online guide that conveys our love of Roman history, Roman sites & the pleasures of visiting them. (Profile pics: Epona relief, the Roman Forum)

[RomanSites @romansites1]

The 5 ditches outside East Gate of #Ardoch #Roman Fort north of Stirling, result of successive reductions in size of 4 forts: 1st Flavian (AD 80s) then up to 3 Antonine forts (AD 140/50s). Southern anchor of Gask Ridge Frontier. Is this the best site in #RomanScotland: 5 stars?

[Per Lineam Valli @perlineamvalli]

'Marcus?'
'Yes, Lucius?'
'Do you realise you can only see one of the hills from the fort at Trimontium?'
'Pedant.'

[Pete Savin @pete_savin]

Archeo Hare has been watching us all week from the edge of the fort wall #Vindolanda #Archaeology #Hare #wildlife

[Pete Savin @pete_savin]

It was a tad damp to end the weeks excavation I’m indebted to @SonyaSocial for the photograph #Vindolanda #Archaeology

[@FRoStrat @FRoStrat1]

Pleased to announce my book on Forts and Roman Strategy is going to be published by Pen & Sword end April. #roman #history

[Roman Britain News @Roman_Britain]

From manga to bunting: year-long festival to celebrate #HadriansWall - The Hadrian’s Wall 1900 festival will run from January to December 2022 and incorporate art, craft, theatre and more. https://t.co/lpsUGnwpff #RomanBritain #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #HadriansWall1900

[Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer]

Happy New Year, everyone! Let's hope it's a good one.
Sharing with you these delightful Roman laurel leaves (Aquileia), carved from amber, with the inscription: AN(num) N(ovum) F(austum) F(elicem); the wish of a happy and a prosperous new year
https://t.co/uVksoxcbeZ

[Dr! Adelle Bricking @archae_delle]

If you’re wondering about that big lump in the background, that’s a Norman (11th century AD) motte. It was built into the existing Roman fort. It’s thought to be the site of Lleu Llaw Gyffes’ home in the Mabinogion 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Dr! Adelle Bricking @archae_delle]

The desolate and wildly beautiful Tomen y Mur in Snowdonia, north Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 would have been a much livelier place in the first century AD, complete with its own vicus, military parade grounds, and amphitheatre! #RomanFortThursday

https://t.co/5gOR7C4M6N

[Brading Roman Villa @BradingVilla]

We close for Christmas today.... but do not despair we re-open from the 4th Jan.
The #Christmas Cockerel Headed man and his good friends the Astronomer & Medusa wish you all a happy festive season. See you all in the #NewYear for some more #Museum twitter fun and foolery. #Roman

[Antikes Christentum @ancientchurch]

Detail from the hypogeum of 24yo Trebius Justus, called 'Asellus', showing the construction of his villa; 4 ct., Catacomb of Via Latina, Rome.

[Per Lineam Valli @perlineamvalli]

The arguments (and evidence, because there *is* some) for a crenellated walkway on #hadrianswall can found here: https://t.co/VjbMNzXmgA

[Paideia Institute @Paideiainstitut]

Instructors at Oxford are working to increase access to the Classics. How? By treating Latin and Greek as languages to be spoken like any other. @BijanOmrani has the story. @OxfordLatinitas https://t.co/I5huAfApbG

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

Remembering that time back in 2007 that I carefully re-created Iron Age coins of the Iceni and Trinovantes as Christmas biscuits 🍪

[Sue Walker White 🌿🎨🛖🦫🐝🥀💚 @NorfolkHeritage]

Caistor St Edmund #Norfolk #Archaeology my reconstruction painting of the two temples at the centre of the walled #Roman town #RomanSiteSaturday

[RomanSites @romansites1]

The 5 ditches outside East Gate of #Ardoch #Roman Fort north of Stirling, result of successive reductions in size of 4 forts: 1st Flavian (AD 80s) then up to 3 Antonine forts (AD 140/50s). Southern anchor of Gask Ridge Frontier. Is this the best site in #RomanScotland: 5 stars?

[Chapps @chapps]

Finally finished! A speculative reconstruction of the 1st c. AD funerary altar of the child Julia Victorina. Beautiful Ionic decorative scheme, with very specific spring flowers. So specific that I think they must have been individually colored. #polychromy #Louvre 1/

[PCA @PCAarchaeology]

These beautiful, complete #Roman beakers were the grave goods of a young woman excavated in Southwark. She'd been buried in a coffin half a metre longer than the skeleton at the foot end, and these 3rd- to 4th-century pots had been placed in the space. #ArchaeologyAdvent #Day9

[Dr Louisa Campbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @PPIP_Paints]

Watch this space - I'll be filling in the blanks on the @AntonineWall Distance Sculptures by digitally reconstructing them in full colour thanks to a grant from @RomanFindsGrp - THANK YOU!