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Online guide that conveys our love of Roman Sites and the pleasure of visiting them.

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    1 Oct 2018

    Somewhere up on - possibly right at - a homesick soldier bought a ring. “Can you just carve ‘Mum & Dad’ on it, please?”

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    Jan 3
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  3. 4 hours ago

    Tarragona (Roman Tarraco) has one of everything - Amphitheatre, Theatre, Circus, Temple to Augustus, Walls and an Aqueduct. It makes Tarraco a must see for any Roman enthusiast.

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  4. 13 hours ago

    Italica is a large and sprawling site. The Amphitheatre is massive and impressive. The rest of the site has striking mosaics but how they fit in the houses is difficult to understand. The overall picture of how the City functioned…

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    Jan 3

    1053GMT Cutting the ditch into a slope is always a nifty trick

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    Jan 3

    0853GMT The wind can whistle up the crevice at Thorny Doors but the curtain wall just keeps on going

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    Jan 3

    0833GMT The site of more curtain wall thrills us to the core ;-)

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    Jan 3

    0933GMT The ditch is clear but the curtain wall hides under a field wall

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    Jan 3
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    Jan 3

    0913GMT Every Roman soldier admires a nicely rounded corner to a fortification

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    Jan 3

    1013GMT We admire the coursing on this bit of curtain wall at Walltown Crags

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    Jan 2
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    Jan 2

    0832GMT We strike camp and enjoy passing the Down Hill Vallum

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    Jan 1

    1 January 417 AD: Galla Placidia was forcibly married to Constantius III, magister militum for Honorius, after she was returned from captivity by the hard-pressed Vandal leader Wallia, as part of the Aquitanian settlement. See Dunn's article from Phoenix,

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    Jan 1

    1st train on the 1st day of the 1st month of 2019! 📷 Barbara Fuller

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    Jan 1

    On the 1st January 42BC, the Senate posthumously deified Julius , the first Roman to have been defied and declared a god. Octavian, later the Roman Emperor Augustus, as the adopted son of Caesar, used this by assuming the title of Divi Filius (son of a god).

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    Jan 1

    You’re trapped in an elevator with Billy Joel. He climbs through the roof hatch to get help - you’re not fit enough for that. But Billy needs to replace himself with someone his size to stabilize the imperiled cube: do you chose a) Paul Simon b) Bob Dylan c) the late Lou Reed?

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    31 Dec 2018

    RIP Commodus, strangled in his bath in AD 192 by his wrestling partner Narcissus. He was 31. Commodus' death marked the end of the Antonine dynasty.

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    31 Dec 2018

    Marching in winter was tricky for the Romans, for although they divided daylight into 12 hours, we only have 7 hours 28 minutes of it on January 1st on !

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    31 Dec 2018

    From hipposandals to a bronze hand what a wonderful year of archaeology we have had in 2018 at Roman Vindolanda.

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    Jan 1

    lo staff del vi augura un buon primo giorno dell'anno, che possa portare pace e serenità nelle vite di tutti voi staff wishes you a happy first day of the year, that it may bring you all peace and serenity

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