This weekend I have been up to Northumberland to witness the illumination of Hadrian’s Wall. This is the view eastwards from Vercovicium or Housesteads Roman Fort. A beacon was lit about every 250m along its length across Britain...

Startling new forensic research has revealed that multicultural Britain is nothing new after discovering black Africans were living in high society in Roman York.A study of various remains and artefacts from the 4th century at the Y...

Campaigners in Colchester hit their target yesterday of raising £200,000 towards saving the only Roman chariot-racing circus ever found in Britain. Nothing remains above ground except a few stones, but the campaigners aim to buy a V...

Archaeologists say Leicestershire silver gem is Britain’s oldest Roman coin A 2,200-year-old silver shard found by archaeologists in Leicestershire last year will go on public display after officials realised it was the oldest Roman...

The oldest Roman coin in Britain has been discovered after sitting on a shelf for a decade.The silver denarius Roman Republic coin dating from 211BC was found during an excavation in 2000 at Hallaton, Leics. But the coin sat in stor...

A 2,221-year-old silver coin dug up as part of a hoard is the oldest piece of Roman money ever found in Britain.Dating from 211 BC and found near the Leicestershire village of Hallaton, the coin was uncovered with 5,000 other coins,...

The silver denarius was found by a metal detectorist ten years ago in Hallaton, Leicestershire, but it was just one of 5,000 coins in a hoard that included a rare Roman cavalry parade helmet, a decorated silver bowl and the remains ...

Francis Terry is backing plans to take the fate of a site containing Britain’s largest Roman building remains out of the hands of housebuilder Taylor Wimpey.The locally based, classical architect has come up with an alternative ‘gra...

Here's a brand new still of actor Jamie Bell from the forthcoming film Eagle of the Ninth, in which he plays a Celtic slave in the Roman-occupied Britain of 140 AD. Channing Tatum plays his Roman master. A few shots...

Haven’t heard much about this movie up until now. The movie stars Channing Tatum as Marcus Aquila. Looks very promising. Set in Britain during the 2nd century A.D., it’s the story of a wounded Roman soldier and his Celtic slave who...

Oxford historian Bryan Ward-Perkins says as bad as the British recession is, it's nothing compared to the collapse of the economy in the British Isles after the withdrawal of the Romans in advance of the Western empire's fall. OK, f...

Britain is an militaristic lion with a Roman Imperial italic-type helmet. It sits upon a mound of riches gathered from its Empire. Drawn by Keith Thompson...prints are available if you like. (thx, zoe) Tags: Keith Thompson   maps...

Britain’s oldest bath overflow is to be given its first thorough inspection nearly 2,000 years after it was built.For two millennia the Great Drain has carried the mineral-rich waters of Britain’s only hot spring from the Roman Bath...

Historians often assume that the Romans changed Britain politically but not demographically. The indigenous elites adopted Roman culture while the mass of the population remained Celtic. When the Anglo-Saxons arrived in the fifth ce...

2010 marks the 1600th anniversary of the end of Roman Britain in AD 410 - one of the greatest turning points in our history. What was life on the island like at this critical moment? Was it fire and sword, with barbarian raids, peas...

2010 marks the 1600th anniversary of the end of Roman Britain in AD 410 - one of the greatest turning points in our history. What was life on the island like at this critical moment? Was it fire and sword, with barbarian raids, peas...

Mosaics tell of Somerset prosperity in Roman times They were the perfect way to demonstrate wealth and culture in Roman Britain, and a new book on Roman mosaics says a little town in Somerset was probably home to some of the art’s b...

They were the perfect way to demonstrate wealth and culture in Roman Britain, and a new book on Roman mosaics says a little town in Somerset was probably home to some of the art's best craftsmen.To impress your guests, what could be...

A Roman era skeleton found in Gloucester in 1972 has mystified archaeologists for decades. It was found with a fancy silver belt and shoe fittings and an inlaid silver knife from somewhere in the Balkan/Southern Russia area, which i...

Welcome to the history cookbook. Do you know what the Vikings ate for dinner? What a typical meal of a wealthy family in Roman Britain consisted of, or what food was like in a Victorian Workhouse? Why not drop into history cookbook ...