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Paddy will present some of the tales of the practicalities of living, working and dying in the province of Britannia - told through the prisms of objects, places and physical remains. It is 'Horrible Histories' for adults and it's a journey that may surprise
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Populus: The Real People of Roman Britain; by Paddy Lambert

Paddy will explore what archaeology reveals about the practicalities of living, working and dying in the province of Britannia

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 20d

I suppose I'd better do something slightly more constructive that just nosy around.

So then, tomorrow evening 25 Sept, we have the return of our guest lectures.

For our first talk, Paddy Lambert, of Oxford Archaeology, talk is entitled Populus: the real people of Roman Britain.

Populus: The Real People of Roman Britain; by Paddy Lambert

Paddy will explore what archaeology reveals about the practicalities of living, working and dying in the province of Britannia

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 21d

Absolutely. The world would be poorer place were it without @romanpalace.bsky.social

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks for the welcome and the follows everyone.

Apart from @romanpalace.bsky.social who haven't changed at all 🤣

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

AI really isn't all it's cracked up to be. You've clearly found a limit to its resources.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

I only wish there were. You'd not see me for weeks on end. Plus so many aren't even PRoW which is several layers of wrong in itself.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

Oh please post the results.

How I've missed this sort of splendid nonsense.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

I'm also sad that's not a real link

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

I'm now deeply embarrassed. And a bit shamed. I'm so sorry. Mind, set the bar low to start and it can only get better, right?

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

I have absolutely no idea. Middleaged fat thumb creation.

Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

I have a desire to take that map off him and fold it properly. Making me twitch 😉

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

Just the normal layout really. You can (in real life, not my rubbish picture) see the roadside ditches as well. It's remote to us now but not actually that remote in real terms. I guess no worse nor better than many places.

Home | Real Life Church

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

😍😍😍

Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 23d

The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩

The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD.

📷 by me

#RomanSiteSaturday
#Archaeology

My photo shows the ruin of an eight-sided Roman brick lighthouse with four stepped levels. There is a doorway at ground level, above which, on the upper three levels, are narrow rectangular window openings. It stands 15.8 metres high and is 12.2 metres wide at the base. Roman fabric survives to a height of 12.5 m. The brickwork of the uppermost level was reconstructed for use as a church bell tower for the adjacent Anglo-Saxon church of St Mary in Castro of which a small portion can be seen in my photo on the right hand side. The Pharos is dated 1st century - early 2nd century AD and is one of a pair originally built on the headland flanking each side of the Roman port of Dubris (Dover). It now stands within the grounds of Dover Castle.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

Sadly my own personal Latin is pretty lousy. Old English however is nailed.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

This is funnier than you can possibly imagine.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

And sadly the OS aren't always right either. Which is a shame. Some stuff needs updating but they seem slow to do it. Blackstone Edge definitely isn't a RR, for instance.

Ordnance Survey map showing Blackstone Edge marked as a Roman Road which it definitely isn't. Still worth a visit, and a very interesting area but not a Roman Road

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

OP move?

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

I suppose you could argue that they all lead to centres of power/administration, which indirectly all led to Rome.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 24d

That's my reading sorted for this afternoon

Catherine Fletcher @cathfletcher.bsky.social · Sep 1

SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!

Back to work today, but with the happy news that THE ROADS TO ROME is only 99p on Kindle all month so you can get away from it all in virtual fashion and enjoy the ancient routes.

www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Rome-H...

Cover of THE ROADS TO ROME on a Kindle, with image of straight Roman road running between pine trees towards a distant city.

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