For a somewhat nocturnal #RomanSiteSaturday the illuminated Colosseum By Night courtesy of The Justified Sinner. #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

#RomanSiteSaturday

Lussonium is an archaeological site and #ancient #Roman fortress constructed on the Pannonian Limes division of the Danubian Limes, located near modern-day Dunakömlőd in #Hungary.

#Archaeology #History #Military

#RomanSiteSaturday - The Temple of Augustus and Rome in Ankara (Türkiye) features the most complete copy of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti inscribed in both Latin and Greek on its walls. This temple was constructed between 25 and 20 BC after Ancyra was designated as the new capital of Galatia.

Monumental stones frame entry/exit from raised temple area, with several courses of stones of a smaller rectangular structure in front, and view over large stone-bounded square forum area paved in the centre. Beyond a row of columns is the square of basilica area with further columns. In the distance is the sea, with land just visible on the horizon. There are trees on the edges of the site, with one palm in the forum area.

#RomanSiteSaturday
Superbly sited Baelo Claudia on Straits of Gibraltar, a key trading point from C2 BC w Tangier, visible in distance.
View from temple area over forum and basilica w extensive fish salting + garum factory beyond on shore.
Excavations since 20th C have only uncovered c. 20-25%.

Saturday

#BookwormSat
#CastleSaturday
#Caturday
#ChessSaturday
#NonFictionSaturday
#PostboxSaturday
#RomanSiteSaturday
#SarcophagusSaturday
#SaturdayMono
#SaturdayStatue
#SaturdayStripes
#SaturdaySwans
#SculptureSaturday
#SixOnSaturday
#SpireSaturday
#StaircaseSaturday
#SaturdayStairs

Villa romana de Carranque, Toledo 🇪🇦 España. Siglo I a. C. - V 📷 A. M.

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Villa romana de Carranque, Toledo 🇪🇦 España.
Siglo I a. C. - V
#Hispania #Roma
#RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky

Three ruined Roman columns standing on a small bank of earth, with the top of an Italian church visible in the background, under a blue sky with whispy clouds.

#RomanSiteSaturday Part of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in the Forum of Rome

Poking up behind is the 17th century church that stands inside the ancient Temple of Antoninus and Faustina

📸 Mine

#archaeology #romanempire #italy #photooftheday 🏺

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#RomanSiteSaturday
#CastleSaturday

#SwordSaturday

#StuartSaturday

#SarcophagusSaturday

#SteepleSaturday
#SpireSaturday

#RooftopSaturday

#ScreenSaturday

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An excavator & tents on the site of Branodunum fort. New geophysical surveys have shown there are many more “features” than recorded on the 1970s map. Link to Time Team to follow.

A 1970s map of Roman & other “features” recorded as a result of rescue archaeology & aerial photography. Link to Archaeology report to follow.

Branodunum Roman Fort, Brancaster, Norfolk

Built c. 230 CE, but later a Saxon Shore Fort.

Knowledge from 1970s rescue archaeology & crop marks is shown on the map.

In the last 3 days @timeteam.bsky.social , as a result of geophysical surveys, have returned to dig.

#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology

Colosseum and Arch of Constantine

Facade of the Colosseum

Arch of Constantine from inside the Colossium

Inside the vastness that is the Colosseum. A phenomenal piece of Roman construction all in the name of death and spectacle

Does #RomanSiteSaturday still count if the site is in #Rome? Or is it just an excuse for me to show off my #holiday snaps 😉
The Colosseum and Arch of Constantine taken in January 2026
📸 mine!

A colourful information board describing a Roman amphitheatre sits in front of the amphitheatre itself, now a low grass covered earthwork in a house-lined park

At the SE margins of modern #Chichester, West #Sussex, a much-overlooked oval earthwork marks the slight remains of a once intimidating structure

Nibbled by housing, playground and a car park, this was the amphitheatre of #Roman NOVIOMAGVS

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The remains of a Roman watch tower and St. Mary’s Chapel at Scarborough in North Yorkshire. The tower was one of several established during the 4th century to warn of sea raids off the east coast. The site is close to Scarborough Castle 📸 My own #RomanSiteSaturday #Scarborough

@metalclassicist.bsky.social is currently in Trier, so #RomanSiteSaturday presents the Porta Nigra (black gate), a large Roman city gate in there. It is a monumental gateway representative of Hellenistic military architecture of the time. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site built after AD 170.

8pm TODAY on @channel4.bsky.social

Ep 6 (of 6) 📺 “The Roman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts”

@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
heads to Tarragona, once the capital of Iberian Rome, which boasts the largest Roman forum in the world & a vast amphitheatre unearthed below a church

#RomanSiteSaturday

The two-room temple, the oldest structure visible at Aptera, and associated stoa.

Vaulted cistern of Aptera.

The stepped, so-called rectilinear theater of Aptera.

Ancient theater of Aptera.

New post this week, the conclusion on the ancient Cretan city of Aptera! The final post on Aptera continues through the vaulted cistern, theater, and defensive walls of the settlement.

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#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

The Colosseum has a bright new look after restoration The Colosseum has a bright new look following a restoration using the same travertine marble of ancient Rome to recreate parts of columns from 2,000 years ago.

Following a restoration using the same travertine marble of Ancient Rome, tourists are now able to sit on new large slabs where collapsed arched pillars of the #Colosseum once stood.
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#RomanSiteSaturday - The Gallo-Roman theatre of Noviodunum Diablintum (Jublains, France), built during the reign of Domitian and expanded under Hadrian. It is estimated to have had a capacity of around 4,000 spectators. Noviodunum Diablintum served as the capital of the Diablintes tribe.

#RomanSiteSaturday

The theatre at #Verulamium looking north-east, built originally c. 140 in earth and timber. It was later reconstructed in stone, and subsequently enlarged and modified. The remains of the #stage are visible in the centre left.

#RomanBritain #Archaeology #Roman #History

#RomanSiteSaturday

Red colour-coated #pottery

These were produced in Oxfordshire in the later #Roman period. They were found at #Segontium, Caernarfon, north Wales. 270-400 CE. 📸 My own.

St. Fagans National Museum of #History #Archaeology

View of low Roman ruins in a green field next to a lake, with view partially obscured by a large tree branch

Another view of Ambleside Roman Fort in the Lake District on a fine day last year

#RomanSiteSaturday

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#archaeology #romanempire #photoftheday 🏺

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We’ll all go together when we go. At a Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall at the frontline of Empire communal lavatories meant just that. The soldiers sat on benches on either side of a central wash area and did their business in full view of each other.
#RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain
#ECK

For #RomanSiteSaturday the Roman Necropolis at Anastasioupolis with 6th cent. rock-cut tombs and 6-8th cent. sarcophagi alongside later cist-tombs; courtesy of Carole Reddato. #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

The remains of the stone-built latrine (latrina) at Housesteads Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. There are two deep sewers that flushed away the waste, positioned either side of a raised platform. The central area carried wash basins and had water channelled in for the soldiers to cleanse themselves with after “performing their duty” on benches with with apertures above the sewer. Beyond the latrine, the scene is of open green fields with some trees. The sky is mostly clouded but a brief patch of blue appears top right. Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ8

An information sign at Housesteads Roman fort illustrates how the soldiers might have used the communal latrines. The wording in the left says: A COMMUNAL LATRINE With up to 800 men living in the fort, good hygiene was essential to keep them healthy. This latrine (latrina) is an exceptional survival and reveals the clean, communal attitude to hygiene in the Roman world. The latrine has a deep sewer, originally covered with a wooden floor and benches with holes to form multiple toilet seats. The sewer was flushed by rainwater brought from all over the fort in drains, and out via a culvert under the fort wall. In dry spells, flushing was with rainwater collected from the roofs of nearby buildings and stored in stone tanks - two survive outside. The central platform has a channel along which water flowed for washing. Two stone basins were used instead when water supply was restricted. We do not know what soldiers used for toilet paper: sponges were available in the Mediterranean but at Housesteads, it may have been moss, bracken or rags. Above: The outside of the latrine, in the south-east corner of the fort next to an angle tower, as it may have looked in the third century AD. Reconstruction by Katherine Wilson Above: Inside the latrine at Housesteads, as it may have looked in the third century AD. Reconstruction by Philip Corke FELIX SAYS... These are the toilets. The water drains down the hill so the waste is flushed away from the fort. I come here for a chat with my mates!

We’ll all go together when we go. At a Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall at the frontline of Empire communal lavatories meant just that. The soldiers sat on benches on either side of a central wash area and did their business in full view of each other.
#RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain
#ECK

The grassy remains of a road cutting running up a hillside with trees and the roof of a building at the top.

Last Sunday I was at Innerpeffray Library, Perthshire, which stands next to an impressive piece of Roman engineering - a road cutting up the hill from the River Earn probably constructed in the first century that would have required the removal of 2000 tons of sand. #RomanSiteSaturday

Western side of small Roman amphitheatre, with large gateway flanked by 2 smaller doorways, part of the curved stone wall, only a few courses of large stones high. Several tiers of seating are visible behind the wall. Grass now covers the interior oval, where a line of stonework is also visible to the left of the entrance. Behind are trees in the distance under a blue sky.

A rectangular space is bounded by a short stone wall, capped with further a layer of stone. At the far end of the space is a sloping entry. In the foreground sitting in the near half of the rectangular space and just inside the nearest wall is a rectangular complex of 4 stone rows set on short stone pillars the same height as the surrounding walls. Bases of pillars form a line outside the left of the large space. In the background are further Roman remains, including a Roman temple of peace and the gateway to the amphitheatre, with trees and a range of hills behind. To the left is a tall tree, and a group of visitors with a guide.

Poseidonia, C7 BC Magna Graecia site w its 3 famed Greek temples, became #RomanSiteSaturday Paestum in 273BC post Pyrrhic war.
#Romans reused the temples, added homes, built new structures eg this small amphitheatre + curious pool/sanctuary used in women's annual fertility ritual during Veneralia. 🏺

Flaviobriga (Castro Urdiales) 🇪🇦 España. Colonia romana fundada en el 74 d.C. época del emperador Vespasiano. Uno de los principales puertos en la ruta comercial marítima entre Hispania y la Galia. 📷 A. M.

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Flaviobriga (Castro Urdiales) 🇪🇦 España.
Colonia romana fundada en el 74 d.C. época del emperador Vespasiano. Uno de los principales puertos en la ruta comercial marítima entre Hispania y la Galia.
#Hispania #Roma
#RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky

Saturday

#BookwormSat
#CastleSaturday
#Caturday
#ChessSaturday
#NonFictionSaturday
#PostboxSaturday
#RomanSiteSaturday
#SarcophagusSaturday
#SaturdayMono
#SaturdayStatue
#SaturdayStripes
#SaturdaySwans
#SculptureSaturday
#SixOnSaturday
#SpireSaturday
#StaircaseSaturday
#SaturdayStairs

1/ Suggested hashtags to join on a Saturday

#RomanSiteSaturday
#CastleSaturday

#SwordSaturday

#StuartSaturday

#SarcophagusSaturday

#SteepleSaturday
#SpireSaturday

#ScreenSaturday

#StaircaseSaturday
#SaturdayStairs

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The remains of Roman Wroxeter (Viriconium) in Shropshire. Established by the end of the 1st century AD, Viriconium was one of the largest cities in Roman Britain. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Wroxeter #Shropshire

Pergamon, the famous Greek city, was probably the largest city in Anatolia in the mid-2nd century. Under Trajan and his successors a comprehensive redesign took place at the base of the Acropolis. There were massive temples, a stadium, a theatre, a huge forum and an amphitheatre. #RomanSiteSaturday