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| Alchester Roman Town & Fort (Ealdceaster) |
| Wendlebury, Bicester |
| The town of Alchester lies at the junction of two important Roman routes: Akeman Street and the north-south route from Towcester on Watling Street to Silchester. Both roads must have been established at, or shortly after, the Conquest of Britain in AD 43, and the town some time in the 1st century. A Roman fortress and parade ground, the fortress dating to the very early years of the Roman conquest in the 40s, has recently been discovered at Alchester. |
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| Aldborough Roman Town(Isurium Brigantium) |
| High Street, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, YO5
9ES open 29th-31st Oct 10.00-13.00 & 14.00-18.00 (17.00 Oct) ARAoffers free entry |
| Once the important Roman
garrison town of Isurium Brigantium. a major settlement
for the Brigantes, the largest British tribe. The stone walls and defensive towers form part of some of the most extensive Roman remains in the country. Museum shows the history of the town fron AD71. |
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| ANTONINE WALL |
| The Wall stretches from Bo’ness on the River Forth to Old Kirkpatrick on the Clyde. |
| The Antonine Wall is 37 miles in
length. Unlike Hadrian's Wall, which is built of stone,
the Antonine Wall was constructed of turf on a loose
boulder foundation and most-likely topped with a wooden
rampart. In front of the wall, on its north side, was a 3.6m
(12-foot) deep ditch. To the south of the wall was a
cobbled roadway, known as the 'Military Way', that
connected the network of forts which lay approximately
every 2 miles (3 km) along the wall to provide
accommodation for its garrison. It is thought the wall
may have required a complement of around 30,000 men to
maintain the defence. It was only occupied for a generation, being abandoned soon after 160 A.D. About two-thirds of the Wall survives today, the rest has been lost to housing, factories and roads. |
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| How to get there Old Kilpatrick end How to Get there Bo'ness end |
| ARBEIA ROMAN FORT & MUSEUM |
| Baring Street, South Shields, NE33
2BB Phone: 0191 456 1369 Admission: Fort & Museum : Free Time Quest: £1.50, child/conc 80p Easter - September -Monday to Saturday 10-5.30, Sunday 1-5 October -Easter -Monday to Saturday 10-4, Closed Sunday ARAoffers free entry |
| The excavated remains, stunning reconstructions of original buildings and finds discovered at the fort combine to give a unique insight into life in Roman Britain. |
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| Books: Excavations at South Shields Roman Fort by P.Bidwell, 1994, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| ARTHURS O'ON ROMAN TEMPLE |
| Near Carron, Falkirk,Stirlingshire |
| Once a beehive shaped temple
about 30ft in diameter with a similar height. It is close to the fort at Falkirk on th Antonine wall and was probably built by the Army (Legion II Augusta). There wer carved victories and eagles on the walls, so it may have been a temple to Victory. it survived till 1743 when it was demolished. |
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| BATH |
| Roman baths, Pump Room, Stall
Street, Bath, BA1 1LZ Phone: 01225 477 785 Opening Time: Open every day except 25th & 26th December Jan to February & Nov to Dec open 09.30, last entry 16.30, exit 17.30 Mar to June & Sep to Oct open 09.00, last entry 17.00, exit 18.00 July to Aug open 09.00, last entry 21.00 exit 22.00 ARAoffers free entry |
| Quite simply the finest
preserved Roman religious spa from the ancient world. A facinating tour with or without the state of the art hand held digital device. Be prepared to stay for a long time, it's a day out in itself. |
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| BIGNOR ROMAN VILLA |
| 5 miles south west of Pulborough
off A29 Opening times: Daily May to October, Tuesday, Sunday and Bank holiday Monday, March & April ARAoffers free entry |
| Under thatched rooves
are some of the finest Roman mosaics in England. Here
there are glowing scenes, made up of thousands of tiny
multicoloured cubes of stone, covering the floors of room
after room, including a 25m blue,grey, red and white
mosaic along one corridor. Mosaics showing Venus, Ganymede, dolphins and a medusa's head fill the house. The villa was one of the largest found in Britain, it dates to the 2nd century. |
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| BINCHESTER FORT & BATHS (VINEVIUM) |
| Bishop Auckland, County Durham The Fort is open over the Easter bank holiday weekend each year and from the first day of May until the last day of September. Daily opening hours are from 11.00 am to 5.00 pm seven days a week. ARAoffers free entry |
| Binchester was the
largest Roman fort in County Durham. A small part has
been excavated and is open to view. Most of the fort and
the remains of the nearby civilian settlement still lie
buried in the surrounding fields. The fort was built to guard the point where Dere Street crossed the Wear. The first fort was built in timber around AD80 but was soon replaced by a more massive stone fort in the early second century AD. The fort was defended by a wall some 5m high with four gateways flanked by guard towers and outside was a huge V-shaped ditch for extra defence. Inside were the headquarters building, the commandant's house, the hospital, granaries, work-shops, barracks and stables. |
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| BLATOBULGIUM FORT (Blatobulgium) |
| Turn off A74 at Ecclefechan and follow local signs in general direction of Middlebie (B725). Between Middlebie and the Motorway Bridge at Eaglesfield. |
| Once the Roman fort of Blatobulgium, it overlooked the Roman road from Carlisle into southern Scotland. Built during the 1st century AD - perhaps as part of Agricola's campaigns into Scotland. Close at hand is the Roman works on Burnswark, where two artillery practice camps were built. Its playing card shape and multiple ditches are still prominent. Some of the exceptionally fine sculptured and inscribed stones from the site are on display in Dumfries Museum, including the tombstone of centurion Afutianus. |
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| Books: "Birrens, Blatobulgium" by A.S.Robertson 1975 |
| BIRDOSWALD ROMAN FORT (Camboglanna) |
| Gisland,
CA6 7DD Phone 01697 747 602 ARAoffers free entry |
| Birdoswald Roman Fort has one of
the most impressive locations for a Roman Fort on
Hadrian's Wall. Set on a high spur overlooking the River
Irthing the views are spectacular and it becomes very
clear why the Romans built a fort on the site. One of the best preserved Roman forts on Hadrian's Wall occupied from 122 AD to 400 AD |
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| Books: Birdoswald: "Excavations
of a Roman fort on Hadrians Wall and its Successor Settlements 1987-92" by T Wilmott 1997 |
| BRACO ROMAN FORT |
| The Romans built a
number of forts nearly 2000 years ago, including Ardoch
at Braco, connected by a line of watchtowers and fortlets
across the southern edge of Perthshire. This appears to be the first form northern frontier of the Roman Empire and was constructed 40 years before Hadrian's Wall. The Romans withdrew after a short time. In the 140's they returned to Perthshire to rebuild at least some of their earlier fortifications, reoccupied Ardoch and stayed this time for around 20 years. Ardoch was in fact one of the largest Roman stations in Britain but now grass covered rampants and ditches are all that remains. The site is however both remarkable and fascinating. |
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| BRADFORD ON AVON ROMAN VILLA |
| Wiltshire |
| The houses, which were built for Romano British aristocrats in about 350AD, have 40 rooms each and feature an extensive mosaic which is thought to be one of the biggest and best-preserved Roman examples ever found in Britain. |
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| Brading Roman Villa |
| Morton old Road, Brading, Isle of
wight, PO36 0EN Phone: 01983 402515 Daily 9.30 to 17.00 ARAoffers free entry |
| In Roman times the area between Sandown and Bembridge was a great sea inlet, later known as Brading Haven. It was probably the main port of the Island at that time and the villa seems to have been sited to take full advantage of this sheltered harbour. By the mid 4th century AD the original farm on the site had developed into a handsome courtyard villa with stone and wooden buildings on three sides of a central court or garden. |
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| Brigantium |
| Rochester Cafe, Rochester, near Otterburn Open: Daily, all year (2004), 9:00am - 5:00pm. Adults: £2.50 (2004). Partially accessible for visitors in wheelchairs. Tel: +44 (0)1830 520801. |
| Located some 15 miles north of the Wall, Brigantium is an archeological centre with reconstructions of a Romano-British farm and round house; a Mesolithic hunting camp and rock shelter; Roman defences and a Roman road; and a bronze age burial and stone circle. The remains of the Roman fort of Bremenium (free) are a short walk away. |
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| CAERWENT (Venta Silurum) |
| 5 miles west of Chepstow off A38
Newport road Open Daily |
| Within the best
preserved Roman walls (still 5m high in parts) in Britain
are knee high remains of shops, forges, a temple, forum,
great Basilica and houses of the Romanised Silures tribe. Venta Silurum was a self governing civitas or regional capital which in the 4th century had around 3000 inhabitants. |
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| Books:Richard Brewer, Caerwent: Roman Town 2nd edn. ( Cardiff, 1997) |
| CAERLEON FORTRESS (Isca) |
| Isca was the third principal
Roman military base in Britannia. Modern day
Caerleon is a small town of some seven thousand people,
situated alongside the tidal River Usk, just escaping the
urban sprawl of nearby Newport in south east Wales. The fortress of Isca was originally home to the 5,500 heavily armed infantry troops that made up the Second Augustan Legion (Legio Secunda Augusta). Isca being one of approximately thirty similar fortresses which secured the very frontiers of the Roman empire, running from the wild mountains of Scotland to the deserts of Arabia. Legio II Augusta was named after its founder emperor Augustus, and was part of the original invasion force that began the conquest of Britain in A.D. 43. |
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| Books: "The Legionary Fortress of Carleon-Isca, Carleon" by G.C.Boon |
| Caistor Roman Town |
| Norfolk |
| The Roman town of Caistor St
Edmund was once Norfolk's capital. 1700 years ago you
would have been standing outside the high walls of a
large bustling market town, a centre of local government,
trade and entertainment. Caistor is one of only a few Roman towns in Britain that have not been damaged or hidden by later buildings. |
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| Castleford (Lagentium/Legeolium) |
| The name Castleford came from the Romans. Castrum - a camp or fort and Ford - shallow part of a stream crossed by a road. Castleford was the place where Watling Street crossed the River Aire. |
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| Castlesteads Roman Fort (Banna) |
| Hadrians Wall, Castlesteads house, Cumbria |
| The small fort at Castlesteads is unique, as it is the only garrison fort on the Wall which is detached from the Wall itself, and lies a short distance to the south. The fort's northern defences are roughly aligned with the Wall, which here bows out north-westwards away from the direct line taken by the Vallum, which runs from east-north-east to west-south-west. |
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| CHEDWORTH ROMAN VILLA |
| 7 miles north of Cirencester off
A429,NT Opening times:Tuesday to Sunday and Bank holiday Monday, February to mid November ARAoffers free entry |
| Over 300 years the
villa grew into an elegant mansion with bathhouses, large
reception rooms and underfloor heating. It has fine mosaics, particularly in the dining room. It was just off the Fosseway and not far from Glevum (Gloucester) and Corinium (Cirencester) in a beautiful site overlooking the river Coln. |
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| Books: The Roman Villa:
Chedworth by R.Goodburn, 1986, National Trust |
| Chesters Roman Fort (Cilurnum) |
| ARAoffers free entry |
| Chesters Roman Fort is a classic example of a Hadrianic fort, purpose-built within the line of Harian's wall. The Fort followed a standard layout, about 25% of which is still visible to the visitor today. |
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| Books: "The Bath-house at the fort of Chesters (Cilurnum)" by G.MacDonald ,1931 |
| CHESTERTON Green |
| Chesterton on fosse way, Windmill farm, Warwickshire |
| Roman small fortified town of Chesterton-on-Fosse, which as its name indicates, lies on the Fosse Way, half-way between Dom and High Cross and 10 km north of the crossing made by the Roman road from Alcester to Alchester and the Fosse. |
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| Chesterton Roman Fort (Mediolanum) |
| Newcastle under lyne |
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| CHESTER (Deva) |
| For over 300 years, Chester was the site of the Roman fortress of Deva, one of the three main legionary strongholds in Britain. Many of the city's larger stone remains have been gathered in the 'Roman' Garden (beside the amphitheatre). Among them is a reconstructed hypocaust - an ingenious Roman underfloor heating system.Chester's Roman amphitheatre is the largest stone-built example yet discovered in Britain. Its earthen seating-banks once held as many as 7,000 noisy spectators. But although an altar to Nemesis, the Greek goddess of Fate, has been discovered inside, the amphitheatre's sandy arena was used mainly for weapons' training and official ceremonies. |
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| CHYSAUSTER ANCIENT VILLAGE |
| 4 miles north of Penzance, off B3311
Penzance to St Ives Rd EH Open daily April -Oct ARAoffers free entry |
| The village of Chysauster stands High on a bleak down. This Iron age settlement consists of 8 Houses, 4 on either side of a short street, each with its own tiny courtyard and garden. The houses were occupied from 1st century BC for about 300 years. They are in a remarkable state of preservation, lacking only a thatched roof. |
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| COLCHESTER ROMAN MUSEUM |
| Castle park, High Street,
Colchester Phone: 01206 282039 Adult £4.50, Chil/Retired £2.90 Open Daily |
| Colchester is the
oldest recorded town in Britain. The Roman colony was
founded in 44AD. The museum is in the keep of the Norman castle which was built over the 2000 year old vaults of the temple of Claudius, which still carry the scorch marks from 61AD , when Boudicca and her Iceni tribe sacking Colchester and killed its Roman citizens. In the museum you can try on replica Roman armour or look at the extensive collection of Roman artifacts which were unearthed locally. There you will see glassware, jewellery and religious objects. Also statues, toys and household tools. |
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| CORBRIDGE (Corstopitum) Stanegate, Northumberland |
| ARAoffers free entry |
| Corbridge is an ancient site, and excavations show that there was a settlement here prior to the Roman occupation of the area. The Roman site as seen today lies to the north-west of the modern town. The first Roman presence in the area was in AD79 when a small military fort and bath house were erected. This complex was situated about a mile to the west of the present fort and although excavated, lies within the precincts of a modern farm. |
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| Books: "Roman Corbridge: the fort and town" by M.C.Bishop 1988 |
| CROFTON ROMAN VILLA(Orpington) |
| Crofton
Road, Orpington, London, BR6 8AD ARAoffers free entry |
| The villa was constructed in an elevated position overlooking the River Cray and its valley. It was built on Thanet Beds below the crest of the hill, just above the present position of Orpington Station. In Roman times it lay about 11 miles from Londinium, the provincial capital |
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| DOLAUCOTHI GOLD MINES (Luentinum) |
| 7 miles NW of Llanwrda, off A482
at Pumpsaint.SA19 8RR NT Daily late March to late September ARAoffers free entry |
| At the goldmine, the area of open-cast working and the entrances to the Roman mining tunnels are still visible. It is possible to make out, quite near the entrances to the tunnels, the supporting bank of one of the reservoirs which held water used for washing the ore. Further away, a dip in the hillside marks the site of a larger reservoir. A fragment of the Roman waterwheel found at Dolaucothi is now in the National Museum of Wales at Cardiff. |
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| Dover Lighthouse |
| Dover Castle grounds |
| Dover's Eastern Pharos stands to a height of 13 metres within the grounds of Dover castle built to mark the entrance into Roman Dover, then known as Dubrisin plan, with the floors stepped in towards the top. A twin tower originally stood on the Western Heights. |
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| Dover Painted House |
| North Military Road, Dover ARAoffers free entry |
| In Roman Dover a substantial civilian settlement became established to the north of the great naval fort, and a single building from that period has survived. This and a single building from that period has survived. This ‘Roman Painted House’ is believed to have been constructed cAD200 and was either the private dwelling of an important individual, or perhaps a mansio - a Roman hotel for travelling dignitaries. What makes this site unique in northern Europe is the large amount of finely painted wall plaster, which in some areas still survives to a height of 5-6 feet (1.8m). |
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| Easton Maudit Villa |
| Easton Maudit, Northamptonshire |
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| YORK (EBORACUM) |
| North Yorkshire |
| Roman colony and legionary fortress.At the start of the campaign season of AD71 the new Roman governor of Britannia province, Petilius Cerialis, established a new fortress for the Ninth Hispanic Legion in the Vale of York to secure a firm base of operations for his planned campaign against the troublesome Brigantes tribe of northern England. York has been continually occupied ever since. |
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| FISHBOURNE ROMAN PALACE AND GARDENS |
| Salthill Road, Fishbourne,
Chichester, Sussex, PO19 3QR North of A259 0ff A27 1.5 miles west of Chichester Phone: 01243 785859; Fax 01243 539266 Email: mailto:adminfish@sussexpast.co.uk Open all year: 1st February to 15 th December, daily February , November & December 10am - 4pm March - July 10am- 5pm, August 10am - 6pm, September & October 10am - 5pm Remainder of the year,Saturday & Sunday 10am-4pm Adult £5.20, Child 5-15 £2.70, Senior citizen/Student £4.50 ARAoffers free entry |
| Fishbourne is a huge 1st century house, often associated with the client king Togidubnus. It has many large mosiacs visable from an overhead walkway. A large part of the magnificent gardens have been recreated and there is even a Roman potting shed with a talking gardener. |
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| Books: Fishbourne, a Roman palace and its gardens by B.W.Cunliffe, 1971,1999, Tempus |
| HADRIANS WALL |
| They may be accessed from signposted car
parks off the B6318, Military Road, which runs parallel
to the A69, Newcastle to Carlisle, Highway. There are good car parks close to the Wall at Housesteads (see below), Steel Rigg, Cawfields and Walltown. A year round "Hadrian's Wall Bus" connects all the major sites to the main town of Hexham. For more information on the bus route and timetable, contact the Hexham Tourist Infomation Centre. Other sections of the Wall are in the neighbouring counties of Cumbria and Tyne & Wear. See individual sites also Vindolanda Chesters Corbridge Housesteads Brigantium |
| It was in AD 122 that the
Emperor Hadrian ordered the building of a wall across the
country from the Tyne to the Solway to separate the land
of the Britons from the land of the Picts. Now officially recognised as a World Heritage Site, the remains of the central section of the Wall still snake their way across the whinstone cliff on which it was built. There are also many forts, museums, temples and other remains. When it was built in stone, the Wall was some 73 miles long and 5 metres high. It was one of the Roman Empire's greatest feats of engineering. Today, the best remaining sections of the Wall in Northumberland are only 1 metre high but they are still very impressive. |
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| How to get there wallsend-end How to get there Gilsland section How to get there Hexham How to get there Bowness -end |
| Books: Handbook to the Roman Wall by C.Daniels, 1978, Newcastle |
| HALLYNE ROMAN FORT |
| Lyne, Borders |
| There are a number of Roman sites in this area. A large fort was replaced by a much smaller fortlet, both of these permanent fortifications being located on a promontory overlooking the stream of the Lyne Water, to the immediate west of Hallyne Church . |
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Hardkott Roman Fort (Mediobogdum) Eskdale, Lake District Mediobobdum is at the Eskdale end of Hardknott Pass, and to get to the central lakes you have to navigate Wrynose Pass. Even with a modern car, it is a difficult spot to get to. The fort was built between 120 AD and 138 AD and was designed to protect the Roman Road from their port at Ravenglass to Ambleside and on to Penrith
The normal Roman necessities of military life - baths, granaries, soldiers barracks, commanders house, parade ground - are all here on this remote and beautiful setting. The baths, with a sequence of three rooms can be seen outside the main walls. An area of flattened ground is believed to be a parade area.
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| Horrea classis |
| Carpow,fife |
| There are a number of temporary marching camps in the neighbourhood; two nearby at south of the fort, one a little way to the west at in Tayside and another on the opposite side of the Tay Estuary at St Madoes also in Tayside. |
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| HOUSESTEADS FORT (Vervovicium) |
| 2 Miles north of Badon mill off A69
At the end of a steep track from National trust visitors
centre on B6318 Open Daily ARAoffers free entry |
| This is the best
preserved fort on Hadrians wall. It stands on the crest
of Whin Sill, it was the billet for 800 men in the 2nd
and 3rd centuries. The wall at the highest was 6m tall and may have been painted white. Within the fort are the foundations of the barracks and baths, the commandants house and a hospital. even the latrines are visable. |
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| Books: English Heritage Book of Housesteads ny J. Crow, 1995, London |
| Littlecote Roman Villa |
| Littlecote Historic House Hotel,
Hungerford, Berks RG17 0SS Telephone (hotel): 01488 682509 OS Ref: 174/SU 297708 Open: any reasonable time ARAoffers free entry |
| Features: villa building, and apsidal hall with restored Orpheus mosaic |
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| LUNT ROMAN FORT |
| Mill hill, Baginton, Coventry
Phone: 02476 303567 10am to 2.30 pm Public :10am to 5pm on these dates 2 February to 26 November 3rd April to 31 October, 31 May to 4 June,17 July to 30 august Monday to Friday, Saturdays, Sundays, Bank Holiday Mondays All week every day except Wednesday. Adult £2.00, Concession £1.00 ARAoffers free entry |
| A partially reconstructed Roman
fort. Buildings on site include the gatehouse and wall, granary building (Horrea) containing not only a simulation of a Roman timber granary, but also the interpretive centre and museum of the Roman army. Last but by no means least the Gyrus, where the cavalry training took place. Regular reinactments are held at Bank holidays. |
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| Leptis Magna Ruins |
| 3 miles SW of Staines off A30 Sunningdale
road Open Daily |
| Along the side of Virginia water
only a few minutes walk from the car park are Roman colunms from a temple in North Africa. they once formed part of the temple of serapis at Imperial Romes major port at leptis Magna, near Tripoli. They were brought to England in 1816 to decorate the portico of the new British museum, but as they were unsuitable, in 1826 they were taken to Virginia water. |
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| London Museum |
| London wall, london, EC2Y 5HN
Phone: 0207 6003699, 0870 444 3852 Museum and shop times: Monday to Saturday 10.00 am to 5.50 pm, last admission 5.30 pm |
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| LULLINGSTONE ROMAN VILLA |
| 1 mile south of Eynsford off A225
Dartford to Sevenoaks road, Kent ARAoffers free entry |
| Laid out under a protective roof
are the remains of a spectacular Roman villa, probably
built in the 1st century AD for a prosperous Romano
British farmer. There are fine mosaic floors and the heating system. Also surviving is its Christian chapel. |
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| Newport Roman villa |
| Cypress road, Newport, Isle of
Wight Phone: 01983 529720/ 823366 Open Monday to Sunday 10-4.30 (1st April - 30th October) ARAoffers free entry |
| It was the site of a Roman farmhouse that had been built around the year 280 AD.The Romans were fine designers and engineers and this is reflected in the remains of the villa, much of which is still in excellent condition. The hypocaust system graphically displays the famed Roman central heating and the villa even has the remains of a Roman bath which is in very good condition. The restoration team has painstakingly recreated scenes within the villa, and also outside by recreating a Roman herb garden as it would have been nearly 2000 years ago. |
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| PEVENSEY CASTLE |
| Pevensey, nr Eastbourne. East
Sussex Phone: 01323 762604 Opening times: All year 1st April to 31st October daily 10 am to 6pm 1st November to 31st March Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm.Closed 24th to 26th December ARAoffers free entry |
| The roughly oval plan of Pevensey Castle dates from Roman times, and evidence of this period can still be seen in the remains of the rectangular gatehouse. The walls of the castle have remained in a relatively good state of preservation.The old Roman ditches and mounds around the site are still visible. |
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| Piddington Roman Villa |
| 6 miles ne of Northampton on B526 ARAoffers free entry |
| The museum has a detailed model of the Romano British villa in late 2nd century. A full scale mannequin of Tiberius Claudius Severus with audio presentation. There is a good collection of artifacts and reconstructions of a roof and hypercausts. |
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| Pinatta Castra (inchtuthil) |
| Inchtuthill, Tayside |
| The Inchtuthill fortress covered 50 acres (20 hectares) - a fairly standard size - and was probably built to police the newly-subjugated Caledonian tribes. The fortress was abandoned before it was completed following the withdrawal of the Second Legion Adiutrix from Britain in AD86, which was to leave the south of the province severely at threat. |
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| Books: Inchtuthil, The Roman
Legionary Fortress, by L.Pitts, 1985, Britannia Monograph series No.London |
| Porchester Castle (Portus Adurni) |
| 4 miles east of Fareham, off A27
Phone: 02392 378291 ARAoffers free entry |
| An amazingly well preserved 3rd
century Roman fortress. The 3 metre (10ft) thick walls amd most of the bastions survive, with courses of red tiles breaking the grey flint. |
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| Ribchester Fort (Bremetennacum) |
| Lancashire, PR3 3XS ARAoffers free entry |
| The fort was established late in the first century AD., as the Romans continued their march through England, taking land as they went. The fort was located at a junction where the River Ribble and the Roman roads converged, which made protected this strategically important area. Originally a garrison of 500 auxiliary cavalry troops were stationed there. |
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| Richborough Fort ( Portus Rutupiae) |
| Kent ARAoffers free entry |
| Richborough was the bridge head for the invasion, and the pair of parallel ditches that can be seen running almost alongside the much later western stone walls of the site, were dug as part of the original fortifications in AD43. As the conquest of Britain rapidly advanced Richborough soon became an important naval supply base, as evidenced by the laying of new roads, and the erection of several timber buildings believed to be storehouses. |
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| Books: The Roman forts of the
Saxon Shore, S.Johnson, 1979, London |
Rockbourne Roman Villa |
Fordingbridge, Hampshire SP6 3PG, UK Telephone: 01725 518541OS Ref: SU 120170 Open: April-SeptemberARAoffers free entry |
| Features: villa buildings with mosaics and hypocausts, and museum |
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Segedunum Roman Fort |
Buddle st, Wallsend, NE28 6HR Phone: 0191 236 9347 Admission : Adults£3.50, children £1.95, Family £9.00 Open: Mon to Sun 10-5 (1st April to 31 October) Mon to Sun 10-3.30 (1 November to 31 March) |
| Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths & Museum combines the excavated remains of the fort with spectacular reconstructions and exciting, hands-on museum displays to show what life was like in Roman Britain.The remains represent the most extensively excavated site in the Empire and the reconstructed bath-house is the only one of its kind in Britain. |
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| Segontium Fort |
| Auxiliory fort, Caernarfon, Gwynedd |
| Roman Auxiliary Fort and Minor Romano-British Settlement.The first fort was established here in the autumn of AD77 by the dynamic Roman governor of Britain, Gnaeus Julius Agricola. It was originally built to command the Menai Straits and thus to enable the capture of the island of Mona (Anglesey) |
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| Senhouse Roman museum |
| The Battery, Sea Brows, Maryport,
Cumbria, CA15 6JD Phone: 01900 816 168 mailto:romans@senhouse.freeserve.co.uk Admission: Adults £2.50, Child 75p April -June Daily except Monday & Wednesday 10.00 -5.00 July -October every day 10.00 -5.00 November - March Friday,Saturday, Sunday 10.30 -4.00 Bank holidays open 10-5.00 Christmas and New year closed ARAoffers free entry |
| "It has an excellent reconstruction of the shine (Aedes) which was at the heart of the principia in each auxiliary fort" |
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| Books: Maryport, Cumbria: a
Roman Fort and its Garrison by M.G.Jarrett 1976, Kendal |
| Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) |
| The largest Roman town in
Britain over 100 acres under green fields. It remained a
Roman town till 6th century. long after the last legion
departed. The Atrebates tribe were Romanised before the invasion. |
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| Books: Silchester: The Roman town of Calleva by G.C.Boon, 1974, Newton Abbot |
| Trimontium |
| Newstead near Melrose,Scotland ARAoffers free entry |
| The fort of Trimontium, built bt the troops of Agricola in the first century AD, abandoned at least twice by the Romans, and ultimately lost by them after 100 years of frontier policing. |
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A Roman Frontier Post and its people:The fort of Newstead
in the parish of Melrose by J.Curle, 1911, Glasgow |
| Veluniate |
| Carriden, Central Scotland |
| This fort and settlement lies on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth overlooking Torry Bay in Fife, and is situated very close to the eastern terminus of the Antonine Wall at Bo'ness, which lay only a couple of miles to the west. |
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| Verulamium |
| Verulamium park, A4147, St Albans ARAoffers free entry |
| A provincial town of
the Roman Empire. From the superb remains of the only
complete excavated example of a theatre to the mosaic
floors and underground heating system of an excavated
villa, this is a place which gives a hint of the grand
scale of a town which at its zenith in the 3rd century
had 10 high status estates. The museum standing at the heart of the town where the Basilica and Forum once stood holds the results of the excavations on the site. |
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| VINDOLANDA |
| Chesterholm museum, Bardon Mill,
Hexham, Northumberland Phone: 01434 344277, Fax: 01434 344060 Opening times: 2004 April, May, June, July, August, Sept 10am - 6pm October, November 10am-5pm Admission: Adult £4.50, Senior/student £3.50, Child £2.90 |
| A Roman fort which pre-dates Hadrians wall. It was built by Agricola, govenor of Britain between Ad78 and 85. A cizilian settlement soon grew near the fort. The most facinating finds were the writing tablets. |
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| Books: The Roman Fort at Chesterholm, Northumberland by P.T.Bidwell 1985, London |
| Wall (Letocetum) |
| Staffordshire |
| Letocetum was a Roman Staging Post on the great Roman road called ‘Watling Street’, which extended from East Kent to North Wales. These 'staging posts' afforded travellers full facilities, a change of horse and overnight accommodation.Although a relatively small site, comprising two main buildings, a Bath House and a Mansio (hostel), it is believed that Wall developed into a reasonably sized community in Roman times. |
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| Welwyn Roman Baths |
| Near A1(m) junction 6, Hertfordshire, |
| Under the A1 (m), down
a dark winding tunnel are the substantial remains of a
Roman Bathhouse. They were part of Dicket Mead Villa, built in 3rd century AD and
unearthed in 1969. Signs and wall displays identify the Frigidarium, Tepidarium and Caldarium (cold, warm and hot rooms), as well as the hypocaust and the stoke hole, where a fire generated heat. |
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| WROXETER ROMAN CITY (Viroconium Cornoviorum) |
| 5 miles east of Shrewsbury off A5
Open daily ARAoffers free entry |
| Viroconium was the 4th
largest Roman settlement in the province. Established in
about AD58, it became an urban settlement housing around
5000 people in the 2nd century. Lying on the banks of the river severn the site contains extensive remains, including underfloor heating of a bathhouse, parts of a market hall and a tavern. There is also one of the largest examples of Roman masonry still standing in Britain, known as the "Old work", it stands 8 m high and was part of either the Basilica or Gymnasium. |
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| Books: Excavations at Wroxeter 1923 - 27 by J.Atkinson, 1942, Oxford |
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