The Roman era

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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
www.ukans.edu/history/index/
europe/ancient_rome/E/
Roman/home.html
Bill Thayer's enormous website includes a Roman Gazetteer, with more 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.

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 in the 2004 series.

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.

Roman mosaics

Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics (ASPROM)
www.asprom.org/index.html
The Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics website offers a wide variety of materials relating to mosaics in Britain, including their design, construction and the buildings in which they have been discovered. There is a catalogue of every Roman mosaic discovered in Britain, as well as articles providing an insight into the relationship between mosaics and art, architecture, religion and history. ASPROM is supporting former English Heritage chief illustrator David Neal and Steve Cosh's project to catalogue and publish details of every Roman mosaic in Britain, further details of which can be found on its website.

The best and worst Roman mosaics in Britain
www.cix.co.uk/~archaeology/timeline/roman/
mosaics/mosaics.htm
Mosaics expert and illustrator David Neal has been working with Steve Cosh to produce a four-volume account of all the known mosaics in the country. Here they choose four of their best – and worst – Roman mosaics in Britain. This illustrated web page is an abridged version of an article that appeared in Current Archaeology 157, published in May 1998.

Recording Roman mosaics
www.asprom.org/publications/recording.html
How can Roman mosaics best be illustrated? Many mosaics are known only from photos (usually black and white), but they are difficult to photograph even under good conditions. Because of their size and situation, often only an oblique view is possible, and rarely can the entire mosaic be captured.Thus to get an overall idea of what an ancient mosaic looked like, the best solution is a painting to scale, together with photographic evidence, and this is the solution adopted in the forthcoming corpus of Romano-British mosaics by David Neal and Steve Cosh. This illustrated article gives a detailed account of the background to their work and the history of recording Roman mosaics in Britain.

The Romans in Britain: Roman mosaics
www.romans-in-britain.org.uk/
arc_roman_mosaics.htm
Good basic introduction to Roman mosaics, their design, construction, peculiarities and mistakes.

Roman mosaics gallery
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/
romans/mosaics_gallery.shtml
Online gallery of mosaics from Fishbourne Roman Palace and Bignor Roman villa.

Piazza Armerina, Sicily
www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/armerina/
armerina.html
A large, early 4th-century Roman villa and estate in Sicily, the Piazza Armerina has many well-preserved mosaics that feature on this website.

Pyrrha's Roman pages
www.pyrrha.demon.co.uk/index.html
This website provides information on how a couple with classical enthusiasms made a Roman mosaic and garden. The site also contains an introduction to the Latin language, poetry and how to read Latin inscriptions.

Mosaic Workshop
www.mosaicworkshop.com/acatalog/index.html
Shop: 1a Princeton Street
London WC1R 4AX
Tel: 020 7831 0889
Workshop: Unit B
443-449 Holloway Road
London N7 6LJ
Tel: 020 7263 2997
The Mosaic Workshop supplies materials and organises courses on mosaic-making.

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