At the end of my last post, I left us at the fort of Housesteads on Hadrian's Wall. Now we're moving along the road a bit to the fort of Vindolanda, one of the most famous Roman sites in Britain, and one of its richest archaeological sites. There are ongoing excavations, which I've volunteered at twice, and it was the highlight of my summer both ( Read more... )

Okay, so in my post on the Julio-Claudians, I sort of went off on a tangent about Claudius' invasion of Britain in AD 43. And the Roman army and Roman Britain are a particular obsessions of mine, so this is just another excuse for me to obsess. :P

( In which I get over-excited over legion movements, legionary equipment, and Housesteads. Enter at your own risk. )

Here's the first of my promised picspams, and I'm tired, so I decided to go with something that required as little fact-checking as possible. So I went with some of the busts and statues from the Roman galleries. Sorry, hoc_voluerunt, this probably isn't what you had in mind when you asked for epic, but that'll come... when I'm more awake. >_< But the Julio- ( Read more... )