1st century AD building stone inscribed with the name of the 20th Legion from Maryport Roman Fort in Cumbria. Part of the collections at Senhouse Roman Museum in Maryport. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #Maryport
Bonna, modern Bonn, was a #Roman fortress opposite the confluence of the frontier river #Rhine and built by prince Drusus between 16/15 and 13 BCE. This new fortress was occupied by the First #Legion Germanica.
#RomanFortThursday
#History#Archaeology
#Germany
Underwater photograph of a remarkably preserved Roman sword, a so-called gladius, lying in its scabbard on a sandy seabed covered in green algae and sediment. Sand and small rocks surround it.
A remarkable archaeological discovery beneath the waters of Lake Neuchâtel!
In November 2024, the remains of a Roman cargo ship, dating 1st c. AD, was discovered. The wreck contained hundreds of pottery vessels, Spanish olive oil amphorae, tools and weapons, including the #sword shown here.
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The Roman mosaic in Nennig, Germany, is one of the largest of Roman mosaic art of the 2nd and 3rd century. North of the Alps, this mosaic is one of the very few that remained at their original site. A local farmer discovered it in 1852 by accident. The mosaic was in a Roman villa. #MosaicMonday
"Newly published research by GUARD Archaeology has revealed how a hitherto unknown Antonine Wall Roman fortlet was discovered beneath the back gardens of Bearsden."
www.guard-archaeology.co.uk/GALNews/
Remains of the Roman amphitheater at Chester. The amphitheater could sit around 7000 spectators and was the largest in Britain. Only two fifths of the site are currently visible. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #Chester
The Divitia-Deutz fort is the nucleus of right-bank of Cologne in Germany. Little remains of the fort today, which was built between AD 310 and 315. Apart from the northwest tower, the western part of the fort was demolished in the 19th century when the river bank was adjusted. #RomanFortThursday
Habitancum is a well-preserved multi-phase Roman fort on Dere Street in Northumberland. Situated on a low knoll overlooking the River Rede, 9 miles north of Hadrian's Wall.
Initially built in the 2nd C, it was rebuilt/reoccupied in early 3rd C.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
Artist’s reconstruction painting of the watchtower.
3/ There is a very good information board at the site featuring this splendid reconstruction painting!!
All photos Nov 25
Water filled circular ditch.
2/ The earthworks - a slight bank, decent circular ditch and low central mound, show up particularly well in wet weather (not unusual!!). The watchtowers were spaced very roughly about a Roman mile apart. 🧵
Heritage sign board with reconstruction of watchtower and earthworks in background.
1/ The site of Muir O’ Fauld Roman watchtower on the Gask Ridge, Tayside, Scotland. Part of a line of Flavian installations thought to date to Agricola’s occupation late 70s/80s, but some have argued earlier still. 🧵
#RomanFortThursday
Thats a fine baulk. Mortimer Wheeler would be impressed.
Playmobil Asterix, Obelix and Dogmatix.
…I don’t recommend traps, which can harm beneficial wildlife; introducing a couple of Free Gauls into the garden should be enough for most imperialist infestations & only predate the target species.
Playmobil Romans digging a marching camp in a garden border.
Feeling very spring-like in Norfolk today, & the bulbs are coming up, so my annual reminder to keep a vigilant eye out for these #GardenPests building marching camps, little gravel roads, fortified walls & villas in your borders. A Roman #PlaymobilInfestation can be difficult to control, but…(1of2)
...have transformed the dark sanctuary into a dramatic
stage.
Dating 2nd/3rd cantury AD.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
Close-up of a stone altar featuring the bust of Luna with a serene facial expression, and draped cloak. Perforated crescent moon above her head.
Close-up of a stone altar featuring the bust of Sol with long curly hair, serene expression, and draped cloak. Perforated radiant above his head. The upper part of the altar is missing.
Two perforated altar reliefs from the Mithraeum at Mundelsheim. One depicts Sol, the sun god, with the radiant. the other shows Luna, the goddess of the moon, with the crescent.
In Roman times, they were illuminated from behind, creating a striking play of light and shadow that must ...🧵1/2
Bronze drain strainer, circular disc, displayed on a museum stand against a light beige background with subtle shadows. The strainer features intricate radial patterns of small perforations forming concentric circles and mesh-like sections around a central open hole.
Have you ever seen a Roman plumbing device that is both genius and gorgeous? Just look at this bronze drain strainer, found in the Roman baths at Weißenburg, Germany, dating2nd/3rd century AD!
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology #findsfriday
Google aerial view of fort earthworks.
Maker’s name.
Mortarium fragment
Habitancum fort ,
Risingham, Northumberland
First built 138 CE, but subject to various rebuildings.
Mortarium rim from Syria, stamped with maker's name in Greek.
3rd - 4th century CE
Fragment discovered in fort, but now in Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
#RomanSiteSaturday #archaeology
#RomanFortThursday
Canovium was a fort in the #Roman province of Britannia. Its site is located at Caerhun in the Conwy valley, in the county borough of Conwy, in North #Wales.
Built in timber at an important river crossing around AD 75.
#Archaeology #RomanBritain #History
Side profile view of a helmet displayed in a museum case. It's mounted on a metal stand.The patinated helmet features a rounded dome-shaped skull cap, a broad flared neck guard extending downward. The punched inscripton is visible.
For #EpigraphyTuesday a Roman infantery helmet (Weisenau type) with an owner’s inscription formed by punched dots on the neck guard: the helmet belonged to Lucius Lucretius Celer, legionary in the centuria of Gaius Mummius Lolianus of the legio I adiutrix. 🧵1/2
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🏺 #archaeology
A #Roman glass bowl in cobalt blue with white irregular swirls; it was made about 2000 years ago, probably in Italy, but ended up in a C1st AD grave in Roman Britain
#AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientRome
Many congratulations to Dr Alex Langlands & team from Swansea for this stunning new discovery from Margam Park in south Wales 😮🥳.
The coastal belt in south Wales is very heavily ploughed, but it sounds like this villa complex has been preserved below old parkland 👌
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Monument with inscription of Gnaeus Munatius Aurelius Bassus in Rome. CIL XIV 3955: Gn(aeus !) Munatius M(arci) f(ilius) Pal(atina) / Aurelius Bassus / proc(urator) Aug(usti) / praef(ectus) fabr(um) praef(ectus) coh(ortis) III / sagittariorum praef(ectus) coh(ortis) iterum II / Asturum censitor civium / Romanorum coloniae Victri/censis quae est in Brit{t}annia / Camaloduni curator / viae Nomentanae patronus eiusdem / municipi(i) flamen perpetu(u)s / duumvirali potestate / aedilis dictator IIII
#EpigraphyTuesday
#TombTuesday
Tomb inscription for Gnaeus Munatius Aurelius Bassus, mentioning Camulodunum in its ninth line. The tomb is noticeable for the precision of its lettering. Vatican Museum, Rome.
📸Rabax63 CC BY-SA 4.0
A bronze head of Marcus Aurelius which was found in 1976 when ploughing at Steane, near Brackley in Northamptonshire. The head is now part of the collections at the Ashmolean in Oxford. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Ashmolean
#OnThisDay - 27 November - in AD 450 Galla Placidia died. As half-sister of Honorius, as well as mother and regent of Valentinian III, she was a key figure of the early 5th Century. #History 🏺
Image: RIC X Valentinian III 2012; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200423). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
1. Vindolanda fort and vicus a decade ago. It’s a Stanegate fort. Earlier forts lie beneath the later fort of Coh IV Gallorum (built 3rd C AD).
2. Housesteads/Vercovicium fort on #HadriansWall, constructed between AD 122-130.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own
#MosaicMonday
Fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a woman with a sistrum, probably priestess of Isis cult -Late #Roman period, 4th century AD - from a domus in #Carthage, #Tunisia - now in the British Museum.
#History #art #Archaeology
Reconstruction watercolour painting showing Iron Age people completing the palisade topped ramparts to a hillfort with thatched roundhouses behind (to the right)
To celebrate #HillfortsWednesday, here's a fantastic recreation of the ramparts of Cadbury Castle in #Somerset under construction in the Iron Age, painted by the late great Victor Ambrus 🤩
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
Ruins of the fort and image of the Cramond lioness at the National Museum of Scotland
#Cramond Roman Fort on the River Almond, near #Edinburgh. 1st period of occupation - c140-170AD, during the building of the #AntonineWall . 2nd period of occupation during the Severan campaign 208-211AD. It housed 1000 soldiers.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
The Cramond Lioness was found there.
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#MosaicMonday
Floor mosaic with 4 #horses. The horses are identified by name and represent the 4 factions, each indicated by a color: Pupillo the blue faction, Cupid the white, Amatore the green and Aura the red.
📸Archaeological Museum of Sousse, #Tunisia ##Roman #History