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  1. 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 anthropology.net/p/six-pig-sku

  2. 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:ancient-origins.net/news-histo

  3. 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 anthropology.net/p/the-man-who

  4. 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.

    socantscot.org/news/new-open-a

    #Scotland #history #archaeology #Roman #RomanHistory #RomanArchaeology #RomanBritain #IronAge #IronAgeBritain

  5. 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