The hole full of bones—the largest ritual deposit discovered of its kind dating to the Roman Britain period—gives archaeologists hints about the ways that conquered British did—and didn’t ...

Researchers believe the brooch came north with Roman soldiers, possibly as a ritual offering or battle trophy.

such graves and cremation burials are very rare in other parts of Britain before the Roman period. Archaeologists suspect many Iron Age peoples often practised complex funeral rituals in which ...

The cemetery dates to the Roman period in Britain (A.D. 42 to 410). The cemetery sat along an ancient Roman road. During the excavation, the team found 14 graves around the central gypsum burial ...

The personal treasures of those buried have been provisionally dated to the late Roman Britain period (3rd-4th Centuries), and include a solid stone coffin containing a corpse set in gypsum.

The Roman armies withdrew from Britain early in the fifth century because ... most of the country to Christianity. The Anglo-Saxon period lasted for 600 years, from 410 to 1066, and in that ...

The silver coins were minted over a period of more than 200 years, suggesting that Roman currency at this time was relatively stable. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

Excavations undertaken for McLaughlin & Harvey at William Grant & Sons Girvan Distillery, near Girvan, South Ayrshire, in ...

In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s normal strategies for command and control of its provinces failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat ...

(Credit: Kleon3, Wikimedia) As the Norton Disney History and Archaeology Group notes on their page, this is the 33rd example of one of these items found in what was once Roman Britain, lending ...

If the inhabitants had established regular trade with Roman Britain, we might expect to find a greater variety ... evidenced by the recovery of pottery dating to the early Neolithic period, when a ...