#RomanFortThursday - Portchester Castle’s superb late 3rd century bastions.

The remains of the latrines at Housesteads. #RomanFortThursday

Looking up at the Roman lighthouse in Dover, one of only three remaining Roman lighthouses in the world. Built around 130AD, it was one of a pair that guided ships to the quayside at the Roman fort of Dubris.

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The #Roman works at Cawthorn, North Yorkshire, consist of 2 forts (one with annex) and an odd shaped camp.
The majority of the earthworks are in an exceptional condition, and the location is fantastic!
#Roman FortThursday 3D #LiDAR

A short video of the impressive ditches along the east side of Ardoch Roman fort in Scotland for #RomanFortThursday . Established in the late 1st century and rebuilt twice, it has been described as of the best preserved forts in the Roman Empire.

#Roman fortthursday the central gate of Qasr Bshir, #Roman Castra Praetorium Mobene , with rare inscription mentioning the emperors of the First Tetrarchy, dated to between 293-305 CE, reused by the Umayyads. Great info here bit.ly/3tiu3ua #Archaeology #Jordan

Portchester Caste, Hampshire
The C3rd Saxon shore fort of Portus Adurni is the best preserved Roman fort north of the Alps thanks to reuse in Medieval times. 16 of the 20 towers still remain with Roman tile bonding course running through many of the walls
📸 AH #romanfortthursday

Roman cheese making in Britain!
Cheese was an important part of a #Roman legionary’s diet. Using techniques, including adding rennet, the Romans made hard cheese which made it easy to divide for rations for their legions..(1/5)
📷Sept
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The Commanding Officer's house under a very moody winter's sky - can we expect more snow?
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#RomanFortThursday - The communal latrines at Housesteads Roman Fort at #HadriansWall . Built in the low-lying southeast corner of the fort, the latrine was fed by water from various tanks. Wooden seats would have covered the main sewer channel. The smaller channel on the platform

The graffito of a horse at Birdoswald Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Cumbria. The horse is carved into one of the stones at the base of the remains of the drill hall - easy to miss! #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain 📸 My own.

Winter quarters.
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#RomanFortThursday - The military bath house at Vindolanda. It dates to the early 3rd century AD and was built by the part-mounted 4th Cohort of Gauls. It retains much of its waterproof floor and fragments of its hypocaust underfloor heating.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrr🥶
#RomanFortThursday by John Kenney 1959

The end of the fight Part III. Very occasionally #gladiators were so evenly matched in a fight that neither would admit defeat. They were ‘dismissed standing’ – ‘stans missus’ – as indicated by ‘MIS’ seen here, for ‘dismissed’ / ‘reprieved’.
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#RomanFortThursday - The legionary fortress of Satala in Cappadocia, the base of legio XV Apollinaris. Standing 1650m above sea level, Satala controlled the north sector of the Cappadocian limes between the Euphrates and the Black Sea. Hadrian visited Satala in AD 123 during his

Claudia Severa, a fort commander's wife near Vindolanda, wrote elegant post-scripts in her correspondence with her friend / husband's colleague's wife.

The finest surviving example is this birthday religious solemnities invitation. romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/T…

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Reconstruction of how Castleshaw Roman fortlet may have looked in about AD120 by artist Graham Sumner…well it is #RomanFortThursday

#RomanFortThursday - The Gonio Fortress (Apsarus), located in Georgia 🇬🇪 15 km south of Batumi near the Turkish border. It was the largest Roman fort along the Colchian littoral (the Pontus Limes).

The fort was established c. AD 77 to ensure control of the routes running north

For #RomanFortThursday a basket found in a well at the eastern fort at Welzheim. The damp environment has preserved it in a good condition.

On display at our branch museum Limesmuseum Aalen

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