Still one of my favourite images from walking Hadrian’s Wall in 2021. Don’t worry, little one, I think they only sacrifice bulls in this one…
Carrawburgh temple of Mithras.
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#RomanSiteSaturday - The Marcantonio Arch is a Roman arch (1st century BC) in Aquino (Aquinum), Italy. Probably the first honorary arch built within the Roman world. Local legend: it was built in a single night by the citizens in honor of Mark Antony, who had stopped in the city.
One of the highlights of my Tuscan road trip last month was Volterra (not just because of the vamps, iykyk)
This amphitheatre (1st century AD) was built into the natural slope of the hill in Greek style. It’s one of the best preserved amphitheaters in Italy. #RomanSiteSaturday
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Trier was already a flourishing trading #Roman town when it was elevated to an Imperial residence in Late Antiquity. The construction of the Kaiserthermen, the Imperial baths, thus began in the 3rd century.
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Remains of the Brocolitia Temple of Mithras on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Situated next to Carrawburgh Roman Fort, the temple was built in around 200 AD. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain 📸 My own.
#RomanSiteSaturday - The Library of Hadrian in Athens. The complex, which measured about 120 metres long and 78 metres wide, consisted of a square, enclosed garden with an ornamental pool in the middle surrounded by porticoes. At the eastern end, a series of rooms housed a
A visit to the Romano-British temple at Maiden Castle, Dorset. Splendidly situated within the largest hillfort in England, the resonances between indigenous Iron Age and imported Roman styles gets cranked up to 11. A quick dive...
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#RomanSiteSaturday - Roman Chichester, Noviomagus Reginorum, civitas capital of the Regini. Visited a couple of weeks ago.🧵1/
#RomanSiteSaturday Jewry Wall, Leicester’s Roman Bath remains. One of the largest surviving pieces of Roman masonry in the UK. The site is currently being redeveloped into a major Roman history attraction. 🏛️
For #FontsonFriday and early for #RomanSiteSaturday , the font in St Andrew's Church, Wroxeter, carved from the base of a Roman column. Impressive! (And rather heavy to carry ...)
Mosaic floors wear down over time as countless feet detach the tesserae, creating holes in the floor. Rockbourne's owner decided to reuse old limestone roofing slabs instead of new tesserae to fix it. Perhaps to save money.....
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The Roman fort of Alauna (modern Maryport) in Cumbria, England, then (2nd or 3rd century)
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The Barbegal aqueduct and mills was a #Roman watermill complex located on the territory of the commune of Fontvieille, Bouches-du-Rhône, near the town of Arles, in southern #France .
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The Newport Arch - the remains of the north gateway to Roman Lincoln (Lindum Colonia). Built in around 200 AD, the arch is the only Roman gateway in the UK still used by traffic. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Lincoln 📸 My own.
Caesar made Arles a Roman colony in 46 BC and it became the crossroads for trade between Italy, Spain and the Rhone, and consequently a 'little Rome'. It grew quickly and was adorned with its own amphitheatre, a basilica, a circus, triumphal arches and temples.
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