Tag: Roman Britain
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Drought responsible for British rebellion against Romans
The following article was published in The Guardian online by Harriet Sherwood on Thursday 17th April 2025 The pivotal ‘barbarian conspiracy’ of AD 367 saw Picts, Scotti and Saxons inflicting crushing blows on Roman defences. A series of exceptionally dry summers that caused famine and social breakdown were behind one of the most severe threats…
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Roman-Era Cemetery unearthed in UK
By Lianne Kolirin, CNN, March 13th 2023 The remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern England. The skeleton of the unidentified woman, believed to be more than 1,000 years old, was found in a lead coffin in a hidden cemetery in the city of Leeds last year. The remains of 62 people were dug up…
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Roman Basilica discovered beneath London
Reported by Jill Lawless – published in The Independent newspaper on the 13th February 2025 Developers have agreed to incorporate the remains into its plans and put them on display Beneath the foundations of a planned 32-story skyscraper in London, archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable vestige of the city’s Roman past: the remains of a…
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Roman villa in Scarborough & London section of Watling Street unearthed
As reported by Historic England and others in April 2021: Rare Roman remains were discovered in recently at the site of a new housing development in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The potential for discovering Roman ruins had been identified at the site in Eastfield, so archaeologists employed by the developer Keepmoat carried out excavations as part…
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Unearthing the first ever Roman Funerary Bed discovered in London
Excavations at the site in central London The following article was written in 2024 by Vladimir Vulic for Roman Empire which can be found at roman-empire.net The discovery was made by a team from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) near Holborn Viaduct, situated in the heart of central London, approximately six meters (20 feet)…