#romanbritain — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #romanbritain, aggregated by home.social.
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Regina Stone, Roman Fort, South Shields, Durham, c.1960s - English Life RP Postcard
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A Bronze Age barrow in Suffolk sat empty for 2,000 years. Then Romans enclosed it, built a painted shrine beside it, and buried six pig skulls facing east. Nobody knows which god. #RomanBritain #Archaeology #BronzeAge https://www.anthropology.net/p/six-pig-skulls-facing-east-a-roman
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A 1,600-year-old Roman nail cleaner found near Cheltenham, England, has a very unusual handle. To Romans, the phallus wasn't obscene—it was a lucky symbol believed to protect against evil. #AncientRome #RomanBritain #Archaeology #AncientHistory #HistoryFacts Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/roman-nail-cleaner-00103062
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Quintus Lollius Urbicus: The Berber Who Governed Roman Britain
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Remains of Roman Houses, Verulamium, Hertfordshire, c.1930s - RP Postcard
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Roman Temple in the City of London, c.1950s - Tuck's RP Postcard
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The Roman Theatre, Verulamium, c.1930s - RP Postcard
https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/the-roman-theatre-verulamium-c-1930s-rp-postcard-224510404.htm
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Three Castor Ware Beakers, Verulamium, c.1970s - Photo Precision Postcard
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A Roman-era pit in Colchester held pottery, a horse tooth, an ear spoon... and a 100-million-year-old ichthyosaur bone someone carried there on purpose. The oldest deliberate fossil collection ever found. #Paleontology #RomanBritain #Archaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-man-who-picked-up-a-dead-sea
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The amphitheater at Silchester, Roman Britain, ~250 AD
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2122394/the-amphitheater-at-silchester-roman-britain-250-ad
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New Open Access E-book: Roman Camps in Scotland
As a northern frontier zone, subject to repeated incursions by the Roman army, Scotland possesses a wide range of temporary Roman military camps.
First published in 2011, Roman Camps in Scotland discusses the field evidence & Roman army campaigns, with each of the camps described & illustrated in a gazetteer.
https://www.socantscot.org/news/new-open-access-e-book-roman-camps-in-scotland/
#Scotland #history #archaeology #Roman #RomanHistory #RomanArchaeology #RomanBritain #IronAge #IronAgeBritain
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Cutaway of Chedworth Roman Villa, Roman Britain, 380 AD - 390 AD (Stephen Conlin)
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Cutaway of a tower on Hadrian's Wall, Roman Britain, 2nd century AD (Philip Corke)
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At last we have them all well fooled, well tamed;
they use our baths and lard themselves with oil,
truss up their souls and bodies in the toga…—William Neill (1922–2010), “Despatches Home”
from DESPATCHES HOME (Reprographia, 1972)A poem for the Ides o fMarch
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Roman #RomanBritain #IdesofMarch
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Centurion asks us to root for the occupiers because they sound like us. Boudica: Queen of War mythologizes rebellion until it turns history into fantasy.
#Centurion #Boudica #RomanBritain #HistoricalFilms #FilmAnalysis #History #Myth #Tacitus #Nero #Storytelling #MovieReview
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-palimpsest-of-empire-aestheticized-violence-and-ideological-distortion-in-centurion-and-boudica-queen-of-war/ -
#RomanFortThursday with Ambleside, just on the shore of Windermere
See more of the Lake District in the new episode >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R_4TbWgenc