But once the Romans were here then, for the posh kids at any rate ... This is a wax tablet and it's what school children in Roman Britain would have used when they were learning to read and ...

They built sewage systems and paved, straight roads that stretched right across the country to connect up all their new Roman towns. Before long they'd built so much that Britain didn't look too ...

Roman relics can be found all over Britain, memories from an ancient period in which the Latin conquerors arrived at the country's shores and took almost everything. From Hadrian's Wall in the ...

"Stone coffins are uncommon," the statement explained. "Only around 50 have been discovered around Roman Britain." The coffin was so heavy in part because it was filled with a substance called ...

The work supports growing archaeological evidence that women had high status within Celtic societies across Europe, including Britain, and gives credence to Roman written accounts that were often ...

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Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons ...

During this period, the northern limit of the Roman Empire was the Rhine River, where Roman troops were set up to fend off attacks from Germanic tribes and to launch forays into Great Britain. Of the ...

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Jars, bowls and dishes were all made on this site and widely traded across the whole of Roman Britain. Several of the pots discovered within the kilns were found in a near complete state.