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*History professor profits from sale of historical artefacts*

Another headline fixed

a man with blood on his face says it belongs in a museum .. ALT: a man with blood on his face says it belongs in a museum ..

Indeed

*History professor profits from sale of historical artefacts*

Another headline fixed

The partially excavated outline of a Roman fort and its vicus in a countryside landscape. There are reconstructed towers and sections of wall in the bottom right, outside the fort itself.

#Vindolanda pictured in May 1980, at a much earlier stage in the epic and ongoing excavations there. The reconstruction towers and sections of wall built in the 70s are plainly visible, bottom right. #RomanFortThursday #Northumberland

Image: Cambridge Air Photos, CUCAP 35kCB022

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The Roman Frontier in Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core The Roman Frontier in Britain - Volume 1 Issue 1

Because we love you so much, here's a special #RomanFortThursday and #ThrowbackThursday in one!
It's an examination of the Roman frontier in Britain by R. G. Collingwood, in our first ever issue from March 1927:

(£) doi.org/10.1017/S000...

A painting of a Roman masonry walled fort with projecting towers from the air, reused as a base by Norman soldiers arriving in dragon boats from the sea

28th September 1066

An invading army led by William Duke of Normandy make the 780 year old #Roman fort of ANDERITVM (Pevensey) #Sussex a base prior to the Battle of Hastings

A vivid recreation © Alan Sorrell 1970 reproduced in 1976 as a Department of the Environment postcard

#RomanFortThursday

Part of the *make Roman Forts more bendy* bill passed by the senate in AD 275

True 🤣

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its true that Pevensey would've once abutted the shoreline - a shoreline that has now retreated about a mile away
...but the same is true of Portchester, Richmond & others - and they are still square

#RomanFortThursday

Some fantastic photos of Pevensey #Roman fort (especially the harbour gate arch) in this thread by @forestcollectiv.bsky.social for #Romanfortthursday 🤩👇👇

It's a very small world 🤣

So unutterably depressing

IKR 😍😍

At least they did preserve and identify the Roman bits that survived. Always felt that the *reconstruction* of Cardiff fort is *interesting* 🤔

You're very welcome 😊

That's a particularly good one. Have a copy on a shelf (somewhere!)

They really were (and are) and his postcards were the highlight of any heritage gift shop!

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Definitely the original Roman facing stones. Don't always survive as removed for use elsewhere. Lovely 😍

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I believe these are the original facing stones? not 100% confident to identify them
certainly a lot closer to the original look compared to Chichesters Walls
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social - have a vague recollection of you posting on Pevensey, are these original do we know?

#RomanFortThursday

*Great minds think alike* this #Romanfortthursday

(Or is that *fools rarely differ* - i can never remember 🤣)

#RomanFortThursday & this week got a chance to get back to Pevensey for the first time in about 5 years, its been super-ages!

think we need a thread, i have some questions

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A painting of a Roman masonry walled fort with projecting towers from the air, reused as a base by Norman soldiers arriving in dragon boats from the sea

28th September 1066

An invading army led by William Duke of Normandy make the 780 year old #Roman fort of ANDERITVM (Pevensey) #Sussex a base prior to the Battle of Hastings

A vivid recreation © Alan Sorrell 1970 reproduced in 1976 as a Department of the Environment postcard

#RomanFortThursday

Hadn't really noticed the guy in the tower before 🤣🤣

Romans after Rome!

An open area of grassy heath with a sign in the foreground

#RomanFortThursday A remote posting in Ordovician territory - the upland Roman fort at Tomen y mur in Eryri/Snowdonia is named after the great medieval summit motte ('tomen' or mound) which sits over the Roman fort ('mur' - wall)

The brilliant signs were unfortunately taken down in 2022😔

📷My own

The remains of a 4th century centurion’s quarters or officer’s mess (schola) at Vindolanda Roman Fort in Northumberland.
📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Vindolanda #Northumberland

This is Cedric. He'a an Iron Age warrior and he lives at the Museum of the Iron Age in Andover. I've made a Cedric paper dress up doll and you cut out & dress him for free with entry to the museum during the Easter hols..!

They missed the last boat home