History/classics MA. Living with DPDR.
"The climate is wretched” - Tacitus
#RomanBritain
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Repost for #MosaicMonday
Bede describing Hadrian's Wall: "It is eight feet in breadth, and twelve in height, in a straight line from east to west, as is still evident to beholders".
#ReliefWednesday
On another baking hot day here in the UK, let's be thankful for nymphs and water goddesses.
Here a reclining Coventina holds a water lily leaf, while water flows from a worn pitcher under her left elbow.
Found in her spring near Carrawburgh Fort, Northumberland.
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#ReliefWednesday
On another baking hot day here in the UK, let's be thankful for nymphs and water goddesses.
Here a reclining Coventina holds a water lily leaf, while water flows from a worn pitcher under her left elbow.
Found in her spring near Carrawburgh Fort, Northumberland.
📸 me #RomanBritain
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We're analysing the copper alloy finds from the Roman remains right now & it's great to visit the site on our lunch break (if there's a break in the rain!).
If you encountered a “Sold Out” message while trying to secure your place at the Roman & Iron Age Festival, the fault lies with a rogue imperial clerk who clearly skipped their abacus training. ⚔️📜
Order has been restored to the frontier now and tickets are available once more! 🎉
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"We built this!" Slab set up by the Legion XX Valeria Victrix marking the construction of High Rochester fort (Bremenium) north of Hadrian's Wall in Redesdale, Northumberland.
Now in the Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle.
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#EpigraphyTuesday
📷my own 2025
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“KEEP OUT” in Latin.
#HadriansWall
@vindolandatrust.bsky.social
REMADE - Roman & Early Medieval Alloys Defined
Trimontium Trust & Museum
Roman Sites
Duncan Mackay
Curators talk… that’ll be me, tomorrow!
Exploring Dorchester's Roman townhouse. New blog at visiting-roman-sites.blogspot.com
#RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #Dorset
Tony Divey
Roman Sites
May 25: Feast of Bede (673-735), priest of Gyruum (Jarrow), biblical scholar. Wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People. When news of his death reached missionaries, Boniface wrote ‘the candle of the Church, lit by the Holy Spirit, was extinguished’. Originally May 26.
Camp Hill promontory fort, Lydney. The Iron Age defenses are still well defined. There is a Roman settlement within the defenses, built around iron mines. It was excavated by Mortimer Wheeler in the 1920s & the ruins of the bathhouse & temple to Nodens are visible.
#HillfortsWednesday
Out next year! (Once I’ve written it)
What’s on this May at St Albans Museums ✨
St Albans Museum + Gallery
🌱 A Growing City
✏️ Draw with Rob
💭 7 May Back in the Day Café
🛍️ 9 May Shop Small Market
🎲 17 May Battle Games
Verulamium Museum
🧸 22 May Tots Tales
🔍 26–29 May Archaeology for Families
📜 27 May Curators Talk
