Something else to include with a school trip to Fishbourne, perhaps.   more »

Archaeologists have dug up a 6ft lead coffin containing the well-preserved remains of a Romano-British adult.   more »

A set of Roman baths at Beauport Park near Hastings in East Sussex is on the market, ranking as one of the most unusual properties ever to come up for sale.   more »

Teacher Maggie Barlow explained that the Year 5 students, aged nine and ten-years-old, were exploring the topic how did the Roman's journey shape Britain'.   more »

"I don't think the Romans added much around here except a bit more Continental shopping," he says. "Pottery would have appeared in Malton market. But basically, the Roman occupation was the Iron Age continued."   more »

BUDDING archaeologists are invited to take part in a project which has already unearthed pre-Roman remains in Warwickshire.   more »

I see from a picture in Atriades' blog that the Roman Baths in Bath now offer a children's audio tour. It looks as if it might enhance a school visit.   more »

RESIDENTS are being asked to become temporary archaeologists by helping to search for Roman history at Wixford Lodge Farm.   more »

Lovers of Roman history have a treat in store in the Western Lake District this Autumn, with two of the area’s visitor attractions offering fabulous insights into the Roman occupation of this beautiful part of the country.   more »

You might be interested in the following event in York and to receive updates from York Tourism.   more »

Archaeologist, broadcaster and writer Julian Richards is bringing Hadrian's Wall to the Marlow Archaeological Society - from the Romans to the 'wretched Brits'.   more »

THE mighty Roman Army will be marching on Ham Hill once again next month.   more »

The view of Roman life purveyed in this piece from This is Hampshire may be excessively lurid, but at least the paper/website is using the interest aroused by 'Rome' on BBC2 to tell its readers about the Romans in their own neck of the woods. Have you got a similar story you could give to your local paper?   more »

Two new names can be added to the roll of Romans who were stationed at Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields. Inscriptions found at the site in the last two seasons of excavation were recently deciphered by Dr Roger Tomlin, an expert on Roman inscriptions based at Oxford University.   more »

Sir - The Housing Minister Yvette Cooper's stupid - to use her own word - example of the Romans constructing the city of York on a flood plain, to justify her Government's massive building plans, just won't wash   more »

Hadrian’s Wall Heritage Ltd (HWHL) will launch a marketing campaign to inspire people to plan their invasion to the famous Roman frontier this summer.   more »

A Roman road has been found by workers building a controversial £840m natural gas pipeline across Wales.   more »

A little more on the visit of the Germans to Walltown:   more »

A very short video showing the field where the mosaic was located.   more »

The Rhine Romans (Legio Prima) from Bonn, Germany, arrive for the Pax Britannica event on Hadrian’s Wall at Greenhead.   more »

THE historic Roman Town House in Dorchester is getting a cash boost to improve its facilities for visitors.   more »

Colleagues may like to note the Roman activities in the Chester City Council Exhibitions and Events leaflet   more »

J W Gough, in his 'The Mines of Mendip' comments that, according to Pliny, Britain became the chief source of lead in the Roman Empire, and that it was found so abundantly near the surface of the ground that a law was passed to limit production.   more »

The Pax Britannica school day takes place on Monday, June 11 at Walltown recreation site on Hadrian’s Wall from 9.30am to 3.30pm and costs £3.50 per students.   more »

Home comforts which made Roman centurions the envy of the squaddies they commanded have been revealed at a fort on Tyneside.   more »

A re-enactment group was demonstrating Iron Age living over the Bank Holiday weekend. This was on the Somerset levels. Video here.   more »

THE days of the Roman Empire will be vividly brought to life this weekend at the Lunt Roman Fort, in Baginton.   more »

Archaeologists unearthing parts of an underground Roman aqueduct in Lincoln have found the first evidence that it was actually used, contrary to previous thinking.   more »

A HARDY band of Welshmen in red, who took on the might of the Italians 2,000 years ago, could prove inspirational for tomorrow's Welsh Six Nations warriors.   more »

Taking a stroll through history has been made a little easier at the new-look Fishbourne Roman Palace, which has been officially unveiled by Time Team's Tony Robinson.

Guests flocked to the palace to see the result of a major £3.5m building and refurbishment project on the site to help preserve it, and create valuable space to store and study artefacts.   more »

It doesn't show ancient Britons in a new light, of course. We knew that trade preceded the flag. But it's interesting all the same.   more »

Having transferred my Ermine Street Guard slides, first posted in July 2004 and visited many, many times, to Photobucket, I offer them here as a set. I intend to enhance them digitally, since the slides had already faded before I scanned them.   more »

Mary Beard was actually at the conference that gave rise to the sensational reports in The Times and elsewhere that I noted a day or two ago. She has written about it here.   more »

The Times has a more sensationalised account of the international symposium on amphitheatres in Chester that was reported in the BBC item that I blogged earlier today. It also has a photo of the innocuous-looking 'torture block'.   more »

Just a wee question arising from last Thursday's Question Time. Discussing global warming, Frederick Forsyth asked:   more »

Norfolk Celtic heroine Boudica raised a rumpus as she urged her people to revolt against the might of the Roman Empire. But this was a far cry from the war cries of old - this was a unique opportunity for children to experience first hand what their history and heritage was like at the Castle Museum.   more »

A RETIRED university lecturer in archaeology has drawn on 40 years of fieldwork and practical research to produce his latest book, Roman Dorset.   more »