roman britain – Meditations

August 8, 2018

Review: The Private Lives of the Saints, Janina Ramirez

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 It is my innate liking of Anglo-Saxon Britain which makes me rate this at 3.5/5 rather than any particular…

May 4, 2018

Branodunum is another one of the Saxon Shore forts I have managed to make my way to. I am in very two minds about…

April 19, 2018

In the Land of Giants: Journeys Through the Dark Ages by Max Adams My rating: 3 of 5 stars High 2.5. I think this…

December 2, 2017

The Norman keep, located within a larger Roman-era settlement, is another one of the places which I managed to visit at a very poor…

November 28, 2017

I’ll start with an admission that I spent far less time here than one could have. Not only was the English Heritage owned and…

November 19, 2017

Caister-on-the-Sea is regrettably one of those places which has not survived very well — though one can scarcely say that after fifteen centuries or…

July 5, 2017

The system known today as the Saxon shore forts was a Roman defensive system for the coast of what later became East Anglia. Not…

June 28, 2017

Rome’s Northern Frontier AD 70–235: Beyond Hadrian’s Wall by Nic Fields My rating: 3 of 5 stars A comprehensive review of the Roman fortifications…