MOVIE REVIEW – Boudica: Warrior Queen
This is my review of Boudica: Warrior Queen starring Alex Kingston, Emily Blunt and Steve Waddington.
New archaeological find could shed light on late-Roman Britain
A unique archaeological find uncovered near the site of a Roman villa in Dorset could help to shed light on the rural elite of late-Roman Britain
Top 5 Places to See Ancient Rome in London
Here are a few places you can visit to see something of Ancient Rome in London – and all are free!
Movie Review: The Eagle
This movie could have been renamed: ‘G.I. Joe: The real Roman Hero’ because it was basically US marines dressed in Roman costume fighting badly dressed, made-up ‘savages’.
Movie Review: Centurion
It’s 117. A.D. and the Roman Frontier is plagued by Picts. After a 20 year stalemate, the Roman legions have been given the order to break it by any means possible.
1,700 year-old Roman cemetery discovered under another car park in Leicester
University of Leicester Archaeological Services, the same group that discovered King Richard III under a car park in Leicester, has found a Roman cemetery in another car park in the same city.
This paper explores the writings of English, Scottish and Irish authors to address how these draw upon the geographical and conceptual spaces created through the medium of the two Roman Walls of Britain.
Shepherds
The presence of fossil echinoids in archaeological sites in southern England that range from the Palaeolithic through the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages, Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon indicates that humans have long had a propensity for collecting these fossils.
A canon for the Bronze Age?
Catalogues and databases which are easily accessible to all interested parties regardless of their geographical location, occupation, background or purpose, provide a level playing field for research, publication and debate in the archaeology of the bronze age. The establishment of a canon of reliable, illustrated documentation of as many facets of the Bronze Age as are required, is a prerequisite to the future of our understanding of the Bronze Age.
The Bronze Age climate and environment of Britain
Taking the major studies together it can be seen that there is a large degree of agreement in relation to the major trends. Indeed the noise which appears to be fairly equally if not normally, distributed over time is typical of that which might be expected due to differences in dating, different site sensitivity, and in regional variation.