A rare Roman knife handle was discovered in a river near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, giving further proof to the ...

The ancient Roman fort of Branodunum, just outside Brancaster, was built in the 230s and later became part of the Saxon Shore ...

The tiny figure of a mysterious left-handed gladiator has been found near Hadrian’s Wall proving that celebrity fighters were ...

The tiny remains were discovered at the Nunnery - one of the best-preserved small Roman forts in Britain - during a dig at the site last summer. States of Guernsey archaeologist Dr Phil De Jersey ...

The man, it is now known, was no legionnaire, but a local born and raised in the Scottish Borders close to Trimontium Fort which, at times, marked the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire in ...

In 60 AD, Britain had been a Roman province for less than 20 years ... and the province was held by just three legions and a few forts. They managed to keep a fragile control on Britain by ...

Despite the hardships, many who had been posted to Britain settled there, taking plots of land near remote Roman forts. Rome was not always able to honor the important promise of land. In 14 AD ...

This is a wax tablet and it's what school children in Roman Britain would have used when ... It showed the distance to the nearest fort, Kanovium (the Roman for Caerhun in north Wales).

He said his discovery suggested Wales was completely integrated into Roman Britain, whereas previously only two forts were known to exist in west Wales. "There are more villas than we think and ...

7. The oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain were found at Hadrian’s Wall. The Roman fort of Vindolanda lies just south of Hadrian’s Wall, and though it was built before the wall ...