Remains of an ancient Roman stone wall with arch in Lincoln
Side view of an iron spearhead excavated in Lincoln
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The #fort of #Lindum, in modern #Lincoln, was built in 1st century AD during the #Roman conquest of Britain. It was protected by a deep ditch and wooden towers, and housed two Roman #legions. Later, Lindum became a prosperous town for retired Roman soldiers.
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. 🧵
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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.
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Juliobriga fué fundada por la Legión IV Romana en el Siglo I a.C., se cree qué sobre un antiguo Castro Cántabro. Reinosa, Cantabria 🇪🇦 España. 📷 A. M.
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Juliobriga fué fundada por la Legión IV Romana en el Siglo I a.C., se cree qué sobre un antiguo Castro Cántabro.
Reinosa, Cantabria 🇪🇦 España.
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For #RomanFortThursday the remains of a Roman Military Wall at Reculver Roman Fort in East kent courtesy of Nigel Chadwick. #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology
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After the Dacian Wars in 109 AD the Trophy of Trajan (Tropaeum Traiani) was built next to the altar to commemorate the Roman Empire's victories over the Dacians. It gave its name to the later Roman fort probably built around 106, 1.4 km to the southwest.
The Battle of Adamclisi was a major clash fought nearby during Trajan's Dacian Wars in the winter of 101 to 102 between the Roman Empire and the Dacians resulting in a decisive Roman victory, though both sides suffered very heavy casualties. A monumental altar was built nearby in 102 to commemorate the victory.
The city was destroyed by the Goths, but it was rebuilt during Constantine the Great's rule with improved defensive walls. Civitas Tropaensium survived until the Avars sacked it in 587 when the Avar Hagan, although he had concluded a peace with the Empire from which he received the sum of 100,000 gold coins in exchange for the obligation to refrain from attacks, violated the imperial territory and conquered Tropaeum Traiani "through a military action which gave him a lot of work, because the cities did not surrender easily". It then ceased to be an important city of Dobruja and was no longer mentioned for seven hundred years.
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Civitas Tropaensium was a Roman city situated in the #Roman province of Moesia. The city developed around the fort, colonised with Roman veterans of the Dacian Wars, and became a municipium. (See Alt.)
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There are still tickets available for my talk about my book The Road to Mons Graupius at the wonderful Innerpeffray Library @innerpeffray.bsky.social, so if you find yourself in Perthshire on Sunday afternoon, please come along! innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/shop/shop/ti...
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The remains of Bothwellhaugh Roman Bathhouse at Strathclyde Country Park in North Lanarkshire. The bathhouse served the nearby Roman fort and was in use from around 142 to 162 AD when the northern frontier was based on the Antonine Wall. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday
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
Thought-proving idea for how #HadriansWall looked: the Wall as a barrier without crenels and merlons or walkway, with multi-storey roofed turrets like the watchtowers on the 'limes' in Germania and Raetia. Illustration by Rocío Espín Piñar. #RomanFortThursday
Thought-proving idea for how #HadriansWall looked: the Wall as a barrier without crenels and merlons or walkway, and with multi-storey roofed turrets like the watchtowers on the 'limes' in Germania and Raetia.
Illustration by Rocío Espín Piñar.
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El fuerte romano de caballería de Chesters es el más completo de Gran Bretaña. Conocido por los romanos como Cilurnum, fué construido alrededor del año 124 d.C. 📷 Montaje: A. M.
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El fuerte romano de caballería de Chesters es el más completo de Gran Bretaña.
Conocido por los romanos como Cilurnum, fué construido alrededor del año 124 d.C.
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Photograph showing the remains of a Roman amphitheatre
Aerial photopgrah with overlay showing the location of a Roman fort
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The fort and pagus of Micia, in modern-day #Romania, was built in early 2nd century AD during the #Roman conquest of #Dacia. At its peak, it housed over 6000 soldiers and civilians. Micia had artisan workshops, baths, two necropolises and even an #amphitheatre.
Because we love you so much, here's a special #RomanFortThursday and #ThrowbackThursday in one!
It's an examination of the Roman frontier in Britain by R. G. Collingwood, in our first ever issue from March 1927:
(£) doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Some fantastic photos of Pevensey #Roman fort (especially the harbour gate arch) in this thread by @forestcollectiv.bsky.social for #Romanfortthursday 🤩👇👇
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Legionary fortress of Carnuntum and its amphitheatre. Headquarters of the Pannonian fleet from 50 AD. After the 1st century, it was capital of the Pannonia Superior province. It also became a large city of 50,000 people.
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📷 Juan Torrejón
For #RomanFortThursday a panoramic view of Vindolanda Roman Fort courtesy of Phil Champion. #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology
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*Great minds think alike* this #Romanfortthursday
(Or is that *fools rarely differ* - i can never remember 🤣)
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I believe these are the original facing stones? not 100% confident to identify them
certainly a lot closer to the original look compared to Chichesters Walls
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social - have a vague recollection of you posting on Pevensey, are these original do we know?
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As well as many of its projecting towers surviving very nicely, Pevensey is also noteworthy for still having many facing stones surviving
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its true that Pevensey would've once abutted the shoreline - a shoreline that has now retreated about a mile away
...but the same is true of Portchester, Richmond & others - and they are still square
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A painting of a Roman masonry walled fort with projecting towers from the air, reused as a base by Norman soldiers arriving in dragon boats from the sea
28th September 1066
An invading army led by William Duke of Normandy make the 780 year old #Roman fort of ANDERITVM (Pevensey) #Sussex a base prior to the Battle of Hastings
A vivid recreation © Alan Sorrell 1970 reproduced in 1976 as a Department of the Environment postcard
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Here's a plan of the site showing the chronology of the different layers
but as the different shape i have no idea, anyone?
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One thing i hadn't clocked before, and now i feel a bit silly: Pevensey is a long oval shape, its quite unlike the rest of the shore forts that are somewhere between square & the typical playing card shape
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The Castle is of course very nice - even with water in the moat
last visit it was covered in scaffolding so its nice to see it without this time
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Approaching from the east you're greated with this rather wonderful gateway, while the main road passes perilously close
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...the castle is in fact nested in the middle of one of the Saxon shore forts from ~1700 years ago
which I happen to think is even cooler
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So this is Pevensey - a first stopping point for William the conqueror in 1066 & many visitors are distracted by the Norman Castle in the middle
which means that they miss...
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