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Roman site and museum. Devil's Causeway, Roman road to Berwick upon Tweed. Featherwood Roman Camps, on Dere Street between Chew Green and Bremenium. Habitancum, Roman fort at Risingham. Housesteads (Vercovicium) Hunnum, (also known as Onnum, and with the modern name of Haltonchesters), Roman fort north of Halton.
Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it pre-dated. [note 1] Archaeological excavations of the site show it was under Roman occupation from roughly 85 AD to 370 AD.
Mediolanum (Whitchurch) Coordinates: 52.967°N 2.681°W. Mediolanum was a fort and small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Whitchurch, located in the English county of Shropshire.
Segedunum was a Roman fort at modern-day Wallsend, North Tyneside in North East England. The fort lay at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall near the banks of the River Tyne. It was in use for approximately 300 years from around 122 AD to almost 400. Today Segedunum is the most thoroughly excavated fort along Hadrian's Wall, and is operated as ...
Romano-British culture. Relative degrees of Romanisation, based on archaeology. Romanisation was greatest in the southeast, extending west and north in lesser degrees. West of a line from the Humber to the Severn, and including Cornwall and Devon, Roman acculturation was minimal or non-existent. The Romano-British culture arose in Britain under ...
The site. Arbeia was a large Roman fort in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England, now ruined, and which has been partially reconstructed. It was first excavated in the 1870s. All modern buildings on the site were cleared in the 1970s. It is managed by Tyne and Wear Museums as Arbeia Roman Fort and Museum.
The Vindolanda tablets are made from birch, alder and oak that grew locally—in contrast to stylus tablets, another type of writing tablet used in Roman Britain, which were imported and made from non-native wood. The tablets are 0.25–3 mm (0.01–0.12 in) thick with a typical size being 20 cm × 8 cm (8 in × 3 in) (the size of a modern ...
Calleva Atrebatum ("Calleva of the Atrebates ") was an Iron Age oppidum, the capital of the Atrebates tribe. It then became a walled town in the Roman province of Britannia, at a major crossroads of the roads of southern Britain. The modern village of Silchester in Hampshire, England, is about a mile (1.6 km) to the west of the site.