The remains of a Roman roundhouse, thought to date back to the second century, were discovered as United Utilities were working on a new pipeline project, on grazing land near Garstang Road East.   more »

AN historian has succeeded where Time Team failed... to prove a Cheshire village was once home to the Roman army.   more »

The Roman burial ground found in Gloucestershire is set to be revealed. More than 100 bodies, many with their heads placed at their feet, were found at the Hanson gravel quarry at Horcott, near Fairford, in May 2006.   more »

The remains of a 2,000-year-old Roman high street have been found beneath Cirencester's historic Corn Hall. Archaeologists believe they have discovered shop walls, the remains of a baker's oven and numerous Roman artefacts.   more »

What did the Romans ever do for us? They founded many of the towns and cities expected to weather the current market downturn, for a start   more »

The site has produced large amounts of Roman finds over the last 100 years. We have just carried out excavations on the cemetery which has 400 graves from the early 1st Century to the early 4th.   more »

Archaeologists have found what they describe as a remarkable Iron Age waterhole on the site of an extension to York University. The university's archaeology department plans more digs at the site, which also contains an important Roman building.   more »

An appeal by The Times apparently saved some mosaics on the Isle of Wight, and now Barry Cunliffe wants to excavate the villa.   more »

MEMBERS of Stow Youth Centre had a unique insight into their Roman ancestry when they took part in a mosaic workshop at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester recently.   more »

After listening to local residents and community groups, South Tyneside councillors have decided not to go ahead with a proposal to develop the centre for Arbeia Roman fort on the Lawe Top at South Shields.   more »

Dr Nick Summerton, GP and advisor to the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has written a book "Medicine and Health in Roman Britain".   more »

The first activity to take place during the school break is part of the Museum’s ‘Archaeology Seminars’, and will look at the Romans in the Cotswolds. It is aimed at 9-12 year olds   more »

Volunteers from Wigan Archaeological Society performed a dig at St William's Catholic Primary School's playing field, in Ince Green Lane, to find evidence of a Roman road that linked Wigan and Manchester.   more »

A previously unknown Roman fort has been found at Calstock in Cornwall, one of only a handful of sites giving evidence of Roman presence in the county, and the first found close to a silver mine.   more »

"Our feedback since it was published shows that it has helped the Buried under Bidford project to reach young people which is the only way to safeguard its heritage long term."   more »

Deputy town clerk Steve Newman said: "It's at an early stage but the idea is to raise the profile of the town's Roman sites by having a festival.   more »

These glimpses into the life of a Roman soldier in Britain will form the central exhibit in a new British Museum show devoted to the Emperor Hadrian, who ruled from AD117 to 138 and visited Britain in 122.   more »

A nice video - good quality- of what happened between the finding of the coffin and the lifting of the lid, including explanation of the difficulties, infra-red photography of the inside,   more »

Around 150 coins have so far been unearthed in the run-up to work on the new Gainsborough Hotel and Thermal Spa.   more »

An ancient Roman pan, which was made sometime after AD 122 but was only uncovered in 2003, is to go on display at Arbeia Roman Fort on Saturday January 5 2007.   more »

Work is underway on a new Roman style garden at the museum, inspired by gardens from around the Roman Empire with traditional elements such as pergolas, ornate raised flower beds, box hedging and frescoes.   more »

But part of precious hoard of Roman gold jewellery and silver spoons that was uncovered at a Thetford industrial site nearly 30 years ago is set to return to its home town for the first time this year.   more »

I haven't watched it all through, but it looks worth investigation. What I've seen is a mix of battle scenes, and video of excavation going on.   more »

AFTER a lot of struggle, a Roman coffin discovered at Boscombe Down was moved to its new home at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum on Monday.   more »

Some 1,650 years ago someone was so comprehensively fed up with the state of the Roman empire that they committed an act of treason, blasphemy and probably criminal defacing of the coinage. They cursed the emperor Valens by hammering a coin with his image into lead, then folding the lead over his face.   more »

Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum is to take delivery of a spectacular Roman stone coffin unearthed by Wessex Archaeology in 2007.   more »

THE first evidence of the earliest Londoners and Romans has been discovered in the Olympic Park in Stratford.   more »

The important historical piece, discovered in the River Thames at London Bridge in 1834, will go on show as part of ‘The Face of an Emperor: Hadrian Inspects the Wall’ from Friday, February 8 until Sunday, April 13.   more »

Now, new investigations at Caistor Roman town using the latest technology have revealed the plan of the buried town at an extraordinary level of detail which has never been seen before. The high-resolution geophysical survey used a Caesium Vapour magnetometer to map buried remains across the entire walled area of the Roman town.   more »

The Roman city of Londinium in the first half of the fourth century was not a pleasant place to live - and in fact increasing numbers of people were choosing to live elsewhere.   more »

A banquetting set that once graced the table of a fine-dining Roman family has been unearthed, remarkably preserved, from the bottom of an excavated well.   more »

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 »