December 16, 2011

  • This is one of those items where some details seem to have been left out along the way … from the Evening Standard: The Romans founded London as a centre of trade and business in about AD 50 – or so archaeologists have long believed. But new evidence suggests the capital has a more chilling…

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  • Cirencester Cockerel Find

    Very interesting item from the BBC: A Roman cockerel figurine thought to have been made to accompany a child’s grave has been unearthed in Gloucestershire. The 1,800-year-old enamelled object was found during an archaeological dig at one of Britain’s earliest-known burial sites in Cirencester. It is thought the bronze cockerel, which is 12.5cm high, could…

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  • ante diem xvii kalendas januarias ca. 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Albina at Formiae

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