Roman Sites
@romansites.bsky.social
Exploring sites and museums throughout the Roman world. All photos (except reposts) are my own. Based in Dorset, UK. Blog at https://visiting-roman-sites.blogspot.com/
A look inside the Senate House (Curia) in the Roman Forum. Does the opus sectile floor count for #MosaicMonday? Blog at visiting-roman-sites.blogspot.com/2026/08/rome... #RomanSites #Archaeology #AncientRome
Rome - Senate House (Curia)
Plain, grim-looking and oddly tall for its size, the Senate House (Curia) *** once sat at the heart of the Roman state. I wonder how many...
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A 2nd C AD Roman mosaic floor in a communal latrine. The building may have been used by a collegium or guild for meetings and functions. The mosaic shows hunting and fishing scenes. I’m impressed by the marble toilet seats. 📷 my own, Italica, near Seville. #Rome #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
A look inside the Senate House (Curia) in the Roman Forum. Does the opus sectile floor count for #MosaicMonday? Blog at visiting-roman-sites.blogspot.com/2026/08/rome... #RomanSites #Archaeology #AncientRome
Rome - Senate House (Curia)
Plain, grim-looking and oddly tall for its size, the Senate House (Curia) *** once sat at the heart of the Roman state. I wonder how many...
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It's not one of Lisbon's better-known tourist sites, but the remains of the theatre (1st century CE) of the Roman city of Felicitas Iulia Olisipo, built into the hillside, are worth a visit. Nice museum too. 📷my own 2018 #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanSites
One of the highlights of Reading Museum's Roman collection, the Silchester Eagle inspired Rosemary Sutcliff's 'The Eagle of the Ninth.' New blog at: visiting-roman-sites.blogspot.com/2026/07/read... #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #RomanSites #Archaeology
Reading - Museum (Silchester gallery)
Excavations at the Roman town of Silchester Calleva Atrebatum have produced a wealth of finds including the famous Silchester Eagle (ab...
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#FrescoFriday with this beautiful fragment from the house of the small fountain, Pompeii See (a lot) more from Pompeii in the episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=M238...
Excellent - and illuminating - video on Iron Age Dorset. It seems that the Romans didn’t fight major battles at hill forts like Maiden Castle after all. @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @forestcollectiv.bsky.social #HillfortsWednesday youtu.be/QpA_Ist5LRY?...
Ancient Dorset, The Durotriges & #HillfortsWednesday with Dr Miles Russell
YouTube video by Forest Archaic Collective
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Durotriges Dig@durotrigesdig.bsky.social · last wk.Small part of a 4th century AD #Roman mosaic depicting a face (probably one of the Four Winds with a conch shell) from Frampton villa A fragile fragment of an antique work of art, buried for millennia beneath the topsoil of Dorset 📷 Aug 2021 #MosaicMonday
A walk around the walls of Roman Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum). visiting-roman-sites.blogspot.com/2026/07/Silc... #RomanBritain #RomanSites #Archaeology
Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) - Town
Lost in a maze of rural lanes north of Basingstoke, the walls of Silchester ** - the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum - evoke a powerful se...
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Inscription to Sol Invictus at Corbridge near #HadriansWall. Dedicated by a detachment of the VI Legion under Sextus Calpurnius Agricola, governor of Britannia 162-168 CE. First line defaced c. 193 CE. Details in ALT text. 📷my own 2012 #RomanBritain (Repost with corrected dates).
📜 On This Day – AD 285 As the 3rd century crisis threatened to tear the #Roman Empire apart, Emperor #Diocletian appointed his trusted general #Maximian as Caesar, making him co-ruler in an ambitious attempt to restore order across the vast and embattled empire.
#EpigraphyTuesday Estela y arnés decorativo funerario del centurión Caius Voconnus Proculus. 🏛️ Museo Nacional de Arte romano de Mérida, Badajoz 🇪🇦 España. #Hispania #Roma #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #AncientBluesky
#EpigraphyTuesday Around AD 90, the cavalry decurion Masclus wrote a memo to his C.O. at #Vindolanda, the prefect Julius Verecundus. Could 5 of his men have leave, and would he please order return of his knife from Talampus of Nobilis' century, who has borrowed it? Roman paperwork. 1/4
#TombTuesday The Pyramid of Cestius is an ancient pyramid in #Rome, #Italy, near the Porta San Paolo. It was built as a tomb for Gaius Cestius during the reign of the emperor Augustus, probably between 18 and 12 BC. It is made from Carrara marble. #Archaeology #History #Roman
Labyrinth mosaic (1st-3rd cent CE) nicely displayed with wine and olive oil amphoras at the Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon, South Wales. 📷my own 2024 #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #RomanSites
Circo Romano de Tarragona Built at the end of the C1st CE during the reign of Domitian, and was part of a large provincial monumental complex, of which it occupied the lower terrace.
The South Baths of Perge, Pamphylia, Turkey, with a swimming pool (natatio), dated to the reigns of Trajan (98-117) or Hadrian (117-138); courtesy of Carole Raddato. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology
#RomanSiteSaturday The #Roman theatre of #Malaga was built in the 1st century in the time of Augustus and retained its use as a #theatre until the 3rd century #Archaeology #history #architecture #Spain 🇪🇸
🧵/1 First of all, a wide view of the site, had to flap my arms pretty fast but it was worth it #RomanSiteSaturday
Caerwent (Venta Silurum) Roman Town in South Wales has superb defences and a variety of other buildings on show. Explore the site for #RomanSiteSaturday with a new blog at: visiting-roman-sites.blogspot.com/2026/07/caer... #RomanBritain #Archaeology #RomanSites
Caerwent (Venta Silurum) - Town
Boasting the best-preserved set of Roman town defences in Britain, the quiet village of Caerwent *** lying between Newport and Chepstow in ...
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#RomanRoadsFriday & few are quite as pretty as the world famous streets of Pompeii, think this will be a thread tomorrow, but in the meantime you can see our trip there, here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=M238...
Originally found at Brigetio Roman Fort on the Danube (Hungary), this superb legionary helmet has pride of place at the National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon, Wales. Date: early 1st century AD. 📷my own 2024 #FindsFriday #RomanSites #RomanArchaeology #RomanBritain
🏛 A Roman stone sculpture of a protective deity carved over 1,600 years ago has been discovered underneath a barrack floor in Vindolanda, near Hadrian’s Wall. Likely originally part of a shrine (lararium), it is thought the carved figure is a 'Genius'. open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...
A very good boy guarding his family home for 2,000 years! 🐾 ❤️ Roman mosaic in the entrance passage of the House of Paquius Proculus, Pompeii. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
This geometric mosaic was found at Silchester Roman town (Calleva Atrebatum) Hampshire, UK in a building thought at the time to be a church - an assumption now being challenged. Reading Museum 2nd - 3rd cent. AD 📷my own 2026 #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
Silchester Roman Town (Calleva Atrebatum) was built on the site of an Iron Age settlement (oppidum). Some of the boundary ditches from that settlement can still be seen outside the Roman town walls. #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanBritain 📷my own 2026
#RomanSiteSaturday The Llanilltud Fawr #Roman #Villa was a Roman L-shaped courtyard villa located at what is now Caermead, immediately north of the town of Llantwit Major in the Vale of #Glamorgan. The villa was first discovered in 1887. #Archaeology #RomanBritain #History
Leicester is the second most excavated Roman city after London: 13 percent of Roman Leicester has been revealed. The Shires (Highcross) excavation revealed 80 houses and many public buildings. Photo: Excavating the town’s Roman and medieval defensive ditches at Sanvey Gate by ULAS #RomanSiteSaturday
The Hoxne Hoard was buried some time after AD407/8 when Roman rule was breaking down in Britain. It was made up of gold jewellery, including this body chain, silver tableware and more than 15,000 gold and silver coins. Read more about the hoard on this link: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sear...
A Search for a Lost Hammer Led to the Largest Cache of Roman Treasure Ever Found in Britain
Today, archaeologists are still debating just how old the hoard is—and what it tells us about the end of the Roman Empire in Britain
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