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Roman site and museum; Devil's Causeway, Roman road to Berwick upon Tweed; Featherwood Roman Camps, on Dere Street between Chew Green and Bremenium; Habitancum, Roman fort at Risingham; Housesteads (Vercovicium) Hunnum, (also known as Onnum, and with the modern name of Haltonchesters), Roman fort north of Halton; Lees Hall Roman Camp near ...
The period of Roman rule left a variety of scheduled monuments, including the remains of settlements at Heronbridge and Wilderspool, and parts of Chester city walls. Definite or possible Roman military camps have been revealed by aerial photography showing cropmarks and parchmarks .
The Peak District, located in central England in the United Kingdom, is the site of several Roman settlements, forts, roads and Romano-British farms. List Settlements Roman towns recorded in the Ravenna Cosmography's list of all known places in the world in about 700 AD. Name Location Notes Photo Aquae Arnametiae Buxton The settlement was based around its natural warm springs. The Roman ...
Ancient trackways in England (27 P) ... Roman sites in England (24 C, 16 P) ... Industrial archaeological sites in England (4 C, 58 P)
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Tessa Wheeler excavated the site between 1928–9 with her husband Mortimer Wheeler [6] [7] [8] and more excavations took place in 1980–1. [9] [10] The finds included a hoard of imitation Roman coins which were thought to date from the 5th century, but are now believed to be 4th century artefacts. [4]
The site is now 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles inland from the current coastline. Earth fortifications were first dug on the site in the 1st century, probably for a storage depot and bridgehead for the Roman army. [2] The site expanded into a major civilian and commercial town, and the stone Saxon Shore fort was added around the year 277.
1,800-year-old wooden phallus found in UK may have been a Roman ‘sex toy,’ study says ‘Magical’ Roman wind chime — shaped like a phallus — unearthed in Serbia, photos show Stone penis ...