A New Discovery in Roman Britain

Popular Archaeology ^ | May 10, 2017 | Popular Archaeology

[LouieFisk]

More of the ancient Roman city of Verulamium’s secrets have been discovered by archaeologists. The burnt remains of a 1,800-year-old kiln - a type of oven used to create pottery - have been unearthed during excavations of the ancient city near the modern city of St. Albans in Hertfordshire, Great Britain.

[CJ Wolf]

didn’t see your ping, so I pinged you. I should have known you had this one. :-)

[Flag_This]

I’ll take “Quotes from ‘Ronin’ “ for $500, Alex.

[Little Ray]

Don’t worry. Professor Quartermass is on the job.
Oh, wait...

[Grimmy]

I’ve been spending some of my waste-able free time lately playing Total War: Rome 2.

That really brings home just how much of a micro-management headache it must have been to administer that empire back in the day. And they didn’t even have computers.

[Peter Libra]

#33. Your posting of the beautiful rendering of the Warrior Queen very much appreciated. I was amazed to see this thread revived after about five months. The maps with vivid colouring, would have entranced my much respected history teacher. This was in the war years of WW2. Today there is on tap varied news world wide. Sometimes one wonders what is happening. Disasters all around us.

I often wonder exactly who were the Celtic peoples of the time. I think that only the Romans were able to leave valuable accounts of them. Anyway, I presume Freepers had just as much enjoyment over this informative thread, as I did

[Peter Libra]

A belated thanks to you for your initial posting of this ongoing topic.

[morphing libertarian]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Britons

[Peter Libra]

Thank you for this excellent link. I mentally rap my knuckles for not have thoroughly researched the subject. Just about time for me to turn in. 1030pm EST in Ontario, Canada. This wealth of information will be perused by me for the remainder of the week.

I am lucky enough to have a modern printing of the Anglo Saxon Chronicles. Colour Library Books of Godalming, Surrey. I see some mention that Alfred the Great had mentioned those ancient peoples. I remember the tribes that displaced these peoples as taught years ago. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes. Every English child of a bye gone era would know these names.

[morphing libertarian]

I watched the PBS series I Claudius. Went from him as boy under augustus t him dying as emperor. Fantastic. i think 13 hours. One of his cousins or uncle named Brittanius but not much in the series on Britian. i think Caligula went there and stepped on the beach and collected sea shells and declared a triumph for himself.

I read roman history from the founding (livy) to the year of 4 emperors, AD 69. I suggest pick a topic and immerse yourself. PBS and BBC have done some videos and Nova did some archeological stuff. Best wishes.

[SunkenCiv]

No prob’, thanks for pinging me!

[SunkenCiv]

If there had been anything of great value in either place, the Roman Empire would have added Ireland and Caledonia (now Scotland). It's really one of my favorite "what if" scenarios, and it's really too bad they never carried it out. Didn't the Romans like redheads?

• The Romans in Ireland [7/18/2004]
• So what have the Romans ever done for us? Ireland's links with the Roman empire are being investigated
• Did St. Patrick sell slaves to the Irish?
• Who Were The Celts? [9/26/2002]
• Y Chromosomes Sketch New Outline of British History [May 27, 2003]
• Irish, Scots And Welsh Not Celtic -- Scientist [9/09/2004]
• Gene Study Shows Ties Long Veiled in Europe [repost] [April 10, 2001]
• Report: Ancient Roman graveyard found in suburban Copenhagen [10/11/2007]
• Roman-Style Column Bolsters Han Dynasty Tomb [4-9-2007]
• Tamil Trade [9/11/2004]
• Ancient Sea Link Discovered By ASI (India) [2-12-2006]

[SunkenCiv]

It's a good one to have on DVD (or BluRay, that's probably still avaialble too), but it's a work of historical fiction, based on a much more detailed work of historical fiction. The Caligula anecdote about the shells... there's a scene in the miniseries about that (he arrives back in Rome with booty from "Neptune"), but that's based on an ancient anecdote, Caligula gathered shells from the North Sea coast of the mainland I believe it was. As an emperor, he was ****ty, but wow, in just those relatively few years he had a temple built to himself that featured 200 ton single-piece columns quarried in Egypt and brought to Rome by ship. He also had one of the largest obelisks in Egypt brought to Rome in one piece -- a special ship was built to haul that, and it was a tourist attraction in its own right. Claudius had it repurposed as a form to pour the concrete mole at the end of a great pier in his all-season port. The ship itself may actually still exist, upright, buried, and now somewhat far from the sea. If the wood is gone, a negative image of it in concrete may still exist. And there are, or rather were, the Nemi ships:

• Salvaging Caligula [Nemi Ships, Caligula, and Mussolini]
• Roman ship had on-board fish tank: Hand-operated pump would have kept catch alive during long trips

[morphing libertarian]

thanx I always enjoy your posts and it makes this site something special.

[LouieFisk]

A belated acknowledgement of your “thank you”!
:D

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 5/10/2017. Thanks LouieFisk.