UK News

Seems like a good time to catch up with a pile of brief news items from the UK that have accumulated over the past few weeks:

A caesium vapour magnetometer was used at Caistor St Edmund to get a better idea of the layout of Venta Icenorum:

• Showcasing the secrets of Caistor Roman town (Physorg)
• Uncovering the secrets of Roman Britain (Spero)

A pair of Roman burials turned up in a Leicestershire garden:

• Two Roman skeletons unearthed in a garden (Mercury)

Plans are afoot to reveal more of Wroxeter Roman City (a.k.a. Viroconium):

• County’s Roman city due to be expanded (Star)

Digging has resumed at a bath site in Northamptonshire:

• Archaeologists launch new dig on Roman site (Chronicle)

Remains of a Roman road at Tesco:

• Dig unearths Roman road at Tesco (BBC)

Some letters from the 1940s by the schoolboy who found Bristol Roman Villa were found:

• Bristol Roman villa finder’s thoughts revealed (Evening Post)

Digging has resumed at Arbeia Roman Fort:

• Unearthing more of Arbeia’s secrets (Gazette)

They’re still fighting to preserve the site of Colchester’s Roman circus:

• Builder backs preservation of Roman Circus (Gazette)
• Colchester: Town must make more of its Roman circus (Standard)

Castleford’s Roman bathhouse is getting some recognition:

• Castleford Roman bathhouse boards unveiled (Express)

A Roman well from Chester:

• Roman well unearthed on Chester development site (Evening Leader)

A metal-detecting group from Bridlington has found a hoard of 75 silver coins and 10 bronzes dating to the mid-fourth century:

• Metal-detecting group digs up Roman treasure (Free Press)

There were also a few reenactment events which folks might be interested in reading about … in Carlisle … York … St Albans (sort of) …