Known as Watling Street, the original road ran from the port of Dover in Kent through London to the West Midlands.

A rare Roman knife handle was discovered in a river near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, giving further proof to the ...

Many will be surprised to know it’s also Britain’s oldest recorded town and its first city. Colchester was the former capital of Roman Britain with an impressive history dating back over a ...

Section of 2,000-year-old Roman road discovered under Old Kent Road - Discovery sheds light on one of Roman Britain’s most ...

With cobblestone streets and Roman architecture, St Albans has the same allure as York but is only a short train ride from ...

The biggest city in Roman Britain was Londinium (London). Aquae Sulis (Bath) was a town famous for its baths. Image caption, Some Roman homes were kept warm with an underfloor heating system ...

No other settlement in Roman Britain had defences enclosing such a ... “Even in a really dense city like London, built up over 2,000 years, there are still mysteries to be revealed right beneath ...

A section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads has been unearthed in south-east London in a “remarkable” archaeological discovery. The 2,000-year-old road, known as Watling Street ...

the capital of Roman Britain. City of London Corporation The kiln is being displayed at the Highgate Wood Information Centre In Roman times, a kiln was used to fire pottery, hardening the clay ...

In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s normal strategies for command and control of its provinces failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat ...