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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 8h

A clip of Longcroft for #HillfortsWednesday - a complex hillfort to the east of #Oxton in the #ScottishBorders. It had 3 periods of construction that have created four ramparts with intermediate ditches. The traces of several round houses can also be seen.

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know there is a huge amount of biodiversity at the #Trimontium Fort site - the hedgerows are full of wildflowers, & surrounded by trees. It is a glorious place for a walk, especially in the #autumn sunshine as the colours change. Why not add a stroll to your weekend plans?

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 1d

This rare #Roman hat from #Trimontium, made of hair moss & straw using basketry techniques, shows the creativity of ancient artisans.

To learn more join our Iron Age Textiles Workshop to explore the skills, techniques & natural materials of textile making in the ancient world! 🏛️✨
zurl.co/hSFhM

Image of the hat described, over a white background

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 1d

🌍 #GlobalDiversityAwarenessMonth
At #Trimontium, diversity thrived — #Syrian archers, #Gaulish cavalry, perhaps even the 9th Legion from #Hispania served here. Local #Celtic artistry, seen in dragonesque brooches, blended with #Roman craft. A true crossroads of cultures in #RomanCaledonia 🏛️✨

A Syrian-style arrowhead; 2 Roman altars; a dragonesque brooch with enamel, all from Trimontium

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 2d

A rare Iron Age textile from Loch Tay preserved for thousands of years & thought to be the earliest of its kind - Scottish Crannog Centre - 📷 ©A. Palyvos.
Textile-making tools found at Trimontium 📷 ©NMS & TrimontiumTrust.

This weekend don't miss our Iron Age Textiles Workshop! zurl.co/AntJr

Image of the Crannog textile, collage of textile-making Roman and Iron Age tools

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 2d

From a far past a loving inscription for a Roman grandmother to celebrate grandparents day!
"To the spirits of the departed. The grandchildren Tiberius Claudius Maximus and Claudia Matrona set this up for their most sweet grandmother and nurse Claudia Berus, who had deserved better."

Old Woman, Musei Capitolini, Rome; credits: www.historyskills.com

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 3d

Happy World Teachers Day, a celebration of modern & historical educators!

In Roman times, wealthy families hired a private tutor to educate their children. Now Trimontium offers educational visits, walks & an outreach programmes! We also have a range of resources on our website.
zurl.co/uhtnb

Roman relief showing 3 boys with a teacher; photos of educational activities at the museum

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 3d

#OnThisDay the #Romans marked Mundus Patet — “the earth is open.” On Oct 5, the gateway to the underworld was said to open, letting spirits walk among the living. Like a Roman #Halloween, it was a sacred day: no battles, no business, no marriages. 🏛️👻

#RomanHistory 🏛️🌒

Mosaics representing skeletons and a sculptural relief of a sarcophagus representing the deceased at the gates of Hades

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 3d

#WorldSmileDay #Weekendvibes Cheering up this first century Roman in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum for World Smile Day! Have a good weekend everyone!

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 4d

#WorldAnimalDay 🐴🐗 From venationes to beloved pets, animals shaped #Roman life. Horses powered the army, wild boar roamed the land, & mice left tiny paw prints behind. Our schoolchildren’s #mosaic at #Trimontium celebrates them & inspires respect for nature & #greentourism. 🏛️✨

Mosaic depicting different wild animals; a modern made mosaic depicting a horse; a relief depicting animals running; mouse with a tile showing a mouse's scratches

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 5d

#Scottishmuseumsday2025 is celebrating ⭐️mighty⭐️ objects so we present the Trimontium Fort Site, the largest Roman fort north of Hadrian's Wall, encompassing around 370 acres, including annexes, Vicus, bathhouses & an amphitheater. Explore Trimontium's story at our museum zurl.co/tLIo2

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 5d

#OTD 52BC Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrendered to #JuliusCaesar, ending the siege of Alesia. He was imprisoned before being ceremonially strangled to death in 46BC.

#Vercingétorix Memorial in Alesia, near Alise-Sainte-Reine, France. Credit: Myrabella, via CC.

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 6d

#HighRochester Roman Fort, Bremenium, on #DereStreet in Northumberland, linking #Eboracum & #Trimontium. Built under Agricola after the #Boudiccan revolt, it guarded the frontier. A most intriguing discovery is a round tomb.

For more do not miss our Oct Talk. In-person & online.
zurl.co/Bu3dy

Images of the ruins of High Rochester Roman fort and illustration as described in the post.

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 6d

#OTD 1 Oct AD 208, emperor Severus Alexander was born. The last emperor of the Several dynasty, his was the longest reign of a sole emperor since Antoninus Pius (of Antonine Wall fame).

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Alexander Severus, Musei Capitolini
Aurei of Alexander minted in 222 & 228

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 7d

1st Oct. #Romans honoured Fides #Roman goddess of trust & good faith, embodying fidelity in marriage, honesty in contracts, & the soldiers' loyalty soldiers.
She appears on many coins.

1st Oct. also marks the birthday of historian Sallust (86 BC?), author of Jugurthine War & Catiline Conspiracy.

Gold and silver Roman coins showing Fides in the reverse; statue of Sallust depicting him seated

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Kalends of #October! 🍂 Named for octo (“8”), it was the 8th month in Rome’s earliest 10-month calendar. Protected by #Mars, it marked the end of military & farming seasons & hosted many festivals: Mundus Patet, Meditrinalia, Augustalia, & games like the Ludi Capitolini & Ludi Victoriae Sullae.

Two different mosaics depicting October and a full body statue of Mars, god of war

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 8d

Autumn is drawing in, the days are getting cooler and what better way to warm up than a long soak in a hot bath? The #Romans also enjoyed this treat. #Trimontium had a #bathhouse sited outside the fort walls probably due to the risk of fire.

Roman rubber duck from our online shop - zurl.co/bCN6f

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 8d

#InternationalTranslationDay - Lucius Livius Andronicus was born in Tarentum in 284 BCE. Although he was a writer and a playwrigth, he was sold as a slave when Tarentum was conquered in 272 BCE. His masterpiece is the translation of the Odyssey into Latin, Odusia. Only 46 lines survived.

Ulysses and the Sirens, 5th BCE; www.mythologiae.unibo.it

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 9d

What a month September was for Pompey! Yesterday we marked the anniversary of his death. Today we say happy Birthday to Gnaeus Pompey Magnus - Pompey the Great, born on 29th Sept 106BC in Picenum (modern Marche & part of Abruzzo).

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 9d

The #Antonine Baths of #Carthage powered by the mighty #Zaghouan #aqueduct (built under #Hadrian ) & the vast La Malga cisterns - 15 vaulted chambers holding up to 60,000 m³ each. One of Rome’s greatest feats of engineering in Africa, it supplied water until damaged in the 5th and 11th centuries.💧🏛️

Images of the cisterns of La Malga, the Zaghouan Aqueduct, and the sacred springs at Zaghouan

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 9d

#OTD 28 Sept 48 BC Pompey the Great arrived in #Egypt after Pharsalus only to be killed by agents of Ptolemy XIII. He was decapitated & his body thrown into the sea. #Caesar was appalled at such treatment of his former ally & now mighty enemy. Pompey’s remains were taken to his wife Cornelia.

Aureus coin of Pompey and 2 sculptural heads of Pompey

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 10d

For Sunday in the Borders this week, why not take a wander along #Dere Street? Dere Street ran north from York to at least as far as the #Antonine Wall, passing close to #Trimontium.

Route of Dere Street
Relief scene of legionaries building a road, from Trajan's Column, Museum of Roman Civilization

Map of Dere Street and detail of Trajan's column showing legionaries building a road

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 11d

#Harry visits Chedworth #Roman Villa! 🏛️✨ Built cAD120 & lasting beyond AD424, it shows elite life continued after the legions left. Bathhouses, central heating, a nymphaeum, lavish triclinia, & mosaics with geometric & mythological motifs, including “Winter” in a birrus Britannicus.

Images of some of the villa's mosaics, the exterior and the hypogeum with images of Harry photoshopped

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 12d

#OTD 26 Sept #JuliusCaesar, who claimed descent from the goddess #Venus through Aeneas, vowed the Temple of Venus Genetrix in Rome. Completed under #Augustus, it featured Corinthian columns, elaborate friezes, a statue of #Venus, statues of Julius Caesar, & various treasures.

#AncientRome

Ruins of the temple (three corinthian columns and a frieze); detail of a frieze with cupids inside a museum; illustration of a reconstruction of the temple

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 12d

#OTD 25 Sept 275, Marcus Claudius Tacitus became emperor — the last ever chosen by the Senate. His brief reign saw Aurelian deified & his killers punished, marking the end of senatorial influence in Rome.
#RomanHistory #OTD #Tacitus #RomanEmpire

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