Castle Hill, West Dumbartonshire, is one of the Roman sites related to the Antonine Wall in Scotland. It is a hilltop settlement. Alexander Crest studies the attitudes the locals have to this landscape. He presented his work in #RACTRAC2026. #RomanSiteSaturday
Corbridge was founded well before the Wall. In AD90, the site was chosen for a major Roman fort designed to protect a bridge spanning the River Tyne. It developed into the most northerly town in the Roman Empire, providing goods and services for the garrisons on Hadrian’s Wall. #RomanSiteSaturday
Palmyra is an ancient city in central Syria that dates back to the Neolithic period, and documents first mention the city in the early second millennium BC. Palmyra became a Roman subject in the first century AD. The city grew wealthy from trade caravans and had distinctive art. #RomanSiteSaturday
Ephesus was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, in present-day Selçuk, İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the 10th century BC on the site of Apasa. The city came under the control of the Roman Republic in 129 BC. Augustus made Ephesus the capital of proconsular Asia. #RomanSiteSaturday
Cassino, ancient Casinum, is the southernmost city of the so-called "Latin Valley". The city is best known of the Abbey of Montecassino and the Battle of Monte Cassino during World War II. The ancient Latin settlement sited atop the hill of Cassino. #RomanSiteSaturday
Different road levels of the Fosse Way in Enderby from the Roman gravel surface to post-Medieval times. From the Leicestershire Fieldworkers site visit. Thank you Albion Archaeology. #RomanSiteSaturday
A circular Roman shrine in Endeby, south of Leicester, by the Fosse Way. Seen during the Leicestershire Fieldworkers tour. Thank you Albion Archaeology! #RomanSiteSaturday
Sagalassos in southwestern Turkey was in Roman Imperial times the "first city of Pisidia", but it was already a major town in the Hellenistic period. It was abandoned after Arab raids threatened the town around 640 and after an earthquake destroyed it around 650. #RomanSiteSaturday
Camulodunum, the Roman Colchester in Essex, was an important castrum and city in Roman Britain. It was the first capital of the province. Originally it was the site of the Brythonic-Celtic oppidum of Camulodunon, capital of the Trinovantes and later the Catuvellauni tribes. #RomanSiteSaturday