#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. 🏛️

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#RomanSiteSaturday The Roman colonnaded street in #Petra . Annexed by the Romans in 106 CE, the #Romans began a programme of urbanisation and renovation of the city center. Last pic shows the Roman road and views of the #Nabatean so called Great Temple above. #Archaeology #Jordan

For #RomanSiteSaturday , my working digitisation of Roman forts in Britain (283 and counting...)

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#RomansiteSaturday pics from a summer trip to #Jerash , Roman Gerasa, one of the best preserved late antique cities in the Middle East, 2nd century CE but also inhabited all the way through to the 7th century The Cardo, the North Theater and the Oval Plaza. #Archaeology #Jordan

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Arch of Augustus, Rimini.

Prefiguring Ely as 'ship of the fens', this massive tower was erected on an island of dry land at Stonea (Cambs) c. AD140. Its purpose is mysterious but it's interpreted as the HQ of an imperial procurator supervising the Roman draining of the fens. 1/3
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The Theatre of Marcellus and the Temple of Apollo Sosianus on a crisp early spring day
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The ‘Corbridge Lion’ from Corbridge Roman Town, near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Originally made to decorate the top of a mausoleum, the sculpture was later re-cycled and used as a spout for a large fountain. On display in the site museum. #RomanSiteSaturday 📸 My own.

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The amazing c. 2,000 year-old Roman lighthouse (pharos) at Dover.

The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the whole of the former Roman Empire.

One of a pair built in the first century AD, on the…

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Roman Army Museum, Greenhead.
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“Hadrian’s Wall, near Hexham,” from a 1932 cigarette card by Ogden’s “By the Roadside.”
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Bridge of Tiberius, Rimini.

Looking through the Roman West Gate at Pevensey towards the Norman castle. The scale of the fort is mind-blowing #RomanSiteSaturday

At the end of the C.2 the great bath at Aquae Sulis (Bath, Somerset) was reroofed with a magnificent barrel vault.

Although hollow bricks were used to lighten the vault, the piers still needed to be massively thickened as can be seen from the surviving stubs. #RomanSiteSaturday

Perge theatre.

Built in the C2nd AD, this impressive Greco-Roman theatre, set into the eastern slope of the Kocabelen Hill, held around 14,000 people. Seating for women was confined to the upper rows of the cavea, the..(1/4)
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The Roman Aqueduct, Segovia, Spain.

A spectacular feat of #Roman engineering, built without mortar! Still standing some 2,000 years later! 🤯

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A great example of a Roman lead lined coffin found in a field close to Corhampton Church, Hampshire c1912. The coffin was moved to the churchyard & apparently the bones put in a wooden replacement & reburied 📸 AH

Couldn't resist this picture of the light of the west windows of St. Andrew's church, Corbridge, streaming through the complete #Roman arch taken from the adjacent Roman town of Corstopitum.
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Defensive lilia pits at Rough Castle on the Antonine Wall in Bonnybridge, Scotland. June 2016 #RomanSiteSaturday