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The Roman army in Britain
www.morgue.demon.co.uk/
Detailed website about the Roman army in Britain, its fortresses, forts, watchtowers, temporary camps, depots and industrial sites, built over 400 years, with photographs, reconstructions and other background material on the army and the military history of Britannia. Includes a gazetteer of Roman military sites, bibliography and other web links.
Caistor Roman town
www.sys.uea.ac.uk/Research/
ResGroups/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.
Virtual Rome
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.
Roman Britain
www.bedoyere.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 A Companion to Roman Britain (see Further reading).
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
dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/
Archaeology/European/British/
Sites_and_Monuments/Roman
The archaeology section of the Open Directory Project, a collection of weblinks organised by subject, is maintained by Time Team Forum regular Jean Manco. This includes a range of links to Roman-related websites. There is a section on various Roman sites and monuments in Britain.
Roman Britain Club
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romanbritain/
Another Time Team Forum regular is behind a club on Roman Britain, set up specially to discuss the history and archaeology associated with this furthest outpost of the Roman empire.
Pottery websites
Potsherd: An atlas of Roman pottery
www.potsherd.uklinux.net/index.php
This is a collection of web pages on pottery and ceramics in archaeology, principally of the Roman period (1st century BC to 5th century AD) in Britain and western Europe. The pages include an introductory atlas of Roman pottery, containing descriptions and distribution maps of types of Roman pottery (particularly types found in Britain) and listing them by class (table wares, cooking wares, transport amphorae etc) and source (province of origin). The site also includes a companion to Roman pottery in Britain, a published survey of pottery made or used in Britain during the Roman period.
PotWeb: Ceramics Online at the Ashmolean Museum
http://potweb.ashmol.ox.ac.uk
The Ashmolean, Britain's oldest public museum, has one of the finest collections of ceramics in the world. Now the museum has launched an ambitious project – PotWeb – to create an online catalogue of its entire ceramic collection. When fully developed, the catalogue will be extensively illustrated and supported by a computerised database, bringing together the fruits of 150 years of historical and archaeological research.
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