Category: Archeology Tweets

  • Spoonley Wood Roman Villa and Mosaic

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Roman remains may be found and excavated but sometimes nature reclaims them. These ruins were discovered in 1882 but nature returned and hid them safely away again. Such tweets should inspire archeological departments, and film and TV or BA Media Studies to document the process of re-excavating these ruins, with…

  • Scotland’s Roman Wall – Tweet

    Reading Time: < 1 minute When I started writing about the Roman civilisation in the summer of 1996 content was still new on the web. Wikipedia didn’t exist and we still relied on books and encyclopedias. We still had to visit ruins and more. Today the web has matured to such an extent that you…

  • Cramond Tower in Scotland – Corner of a Roman Fort

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Cramond tower which sits on the corner of a Roman fort. Located in Cramond village, just outside Edinburgh, the tower reuses much of the stone from the fort #Roman #archaeology #scotland pic.twitter.com/1LunLTDZEn — Roman Scotland (@RomanScotland) February 12, 2022