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Legio Secunda Augusta
www.legiiavg.org.uk/
Website of the Legio Secunda Augusta Roman Living History Society, who were involved in a Roman school reconstruction cameo at the Ipswich dig.

Caistor Roman town
http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/
Research/researchareas/
JWMP/CaistorRomanTown/crtp1.html
A virtual tour around the Roman town of Caistor, in Norfolk, which was a thriving regional capital almost two millennia ago. The site is unique in never having been disturbed by later buildings.

Forum Romanum
www.forumromanum.org
At this excellent site you can not only take a virtual tour of ancient Rome, but can also consult a dictionary of mythology, delve into Roman history and the Latin language, and take your pick of a variety of other links to sites concerned with the ancient world.

LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World
http://www.ukans.edu/history/
index/europe/ancient_rome/
E/Roman/home.html
Bill Thayer's enormous website includes a Roman Gazetteer, with more than 340 photos and commentary on Roman monuments; 19 complete Latin and Greek works from antiquity; Samuel Ball Platner's A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome; William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities; Ptolemy's Geography; a Latin inscriptions site; a Roman atlas; 200 pages on Roman military history; and much more.

Roman Britain
www.roman-britain.org
Not the easiest website to navigate, but possibly the most comprehensive on Roman Britain. The site contains sections on the geography of Roman Britain, the native tribes, the Roman invaders, the Romano-British and literary references to Roman Britain, which are published online. There is a Roman military index and searchable maps that detail all known Roman encampments, forts, settlements and other features. There is also an immense amount of background information on all aspects of the Roman period.

Roman Britain
www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk
Time Team Roman expert Guy de la Bédoyère's website includes his online catalogue of stone inscriptions found on altars, statue bases, tombstones and other blocks of Roman masonry. This includes full details and photos of the inscribed stone found at Ancaster. Other resources include a catalogue of Roman gods and goddesses based on a chapter from his book Companion to Roman Britain; and a detailed section on Roman villas in Britain. Unfortunately, the overall design and use of type faces makes it extremely difficult to read in parts (small red type on a purple background does not make it easy on the eye!).

The Romans
www.open.ac.uk/romans
Website set up by the Open University and the BBC to accompany a three-part series about the Romans. Presented by Time Team's Roman expert Guy de la Bédoyère, the website allows you to explore each programme in detail, with synopses, scripts and biographies of the contributors. There's also a timeline, details of the main locations visited in the series, an extensive reading list, links to other sites, and more information about the Open University courses that the programmes support.

Open Directory Project
http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/
Archaeology/Periods_and_Cultures/Roman/
Sites_and_Monuments/United_Kingdom/
The archaeology section of the Open Directory Project, a collection of weblinks organised by subject, used to be maintained by Time Team Forum regular Jean Manco. This link takes you to the section on Roman sites and monuments in Britain.

Roman Britain Mailing Group
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/romanbritain
A Time Team Forum regular is behind this Yahoo group on Roman Britain, set up specially to discuss the history and archaeology associated with this furthest outpost of the Roman empire.

RomanSites
www.ukans.edu/history/index/
europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/home.html
Still not had your fill of Roman websites? This one, a sub-site of Bill Thayer's LacusCurtius site contains more than 2,000 different links, arranged according to topic.

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