The remains of one of the towers at Hardknott Roman Fort in Cumbria. Located on the western side of the Hardknott Pass at 800 feet, the fort was built between 120 and 138 AD. My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Cumbria

The castellum of Schlögen lies on the Danube Limes at Haibach ob der Donau in modern Austria. It way have been the ancient Ioviacum. It was in use from the first to fifth century AD. It was a stop for the classis Histriae, the Danube fleet. #RomanFortThursday

The remains of the west wall at Aesica Roman Fort (Great Chesters) on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. The fort was built in around AD 128, the ninth fort built along the line of Hadrian’s Wall. My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall #RomanArchaeology

The ruined arch from Carnuntum (near the village of Petronell) in the Danube Limes in Austria. It is called Heidentor, Heathens Gate. Carnuntum was a fort (castra) and headquarters of the Pannonian fleet from 50 AD. It became capital of the Pannonia Superior. #RomanFortThursday

The remains of Turret 51B and a fragment of #Roman wall, a lesser known part of Hadrian's Wall #Cumbria #RomanFortThursday #HadriansWall More...
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London once had a Roman fort and its remains can be seen underground in a car park. It was built around AD 110 and the rebuilt fort could house 5,000 soldiers in 5 hectares. It is similar to the forts at the Hadrian's Wall, built at the same time. #RomanFortThursday

The remains of the north gate at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology

The Göd fort is in Slovakia and lies on the Danube limes. The photo shows a tower during excavation. Mostly the site of the fort is currently uncultivated fields. The structures date to the Late Roman period. Photo: Zsolt Mráv © Hungarian National Museum. #RomanFortThursday

Durostorum lies in the southeastern part of Silistra, on the Danubian Limes. The vicus is about 2 km eastwards of the castrum, near Ostrov. The castrum was founded on the site of an earlier Thracian settlement. Photo: Following Hadrian. #RomanFortThursday

Remains of the Roman bathhouse at Bearsden in East Dunbartonshire. The bathhouse was part of the fort which is no longer visible. My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanScotland #RomanArchaeology #Bearsden

Remains of the south west corner of Lanchester Roman Fort (Longovicium) in County Durham. The fort was originally built in around AD150 by the 20th Legion, and served as part of a chain of defensive forts along Dere Street. My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain

Castra Capidava is a Byzantine fort on the Danube river in Romania. It was a Roman fort in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, later overbuilt by a Late Roman fort, which was used from the 4th to 6th century AD. It had a massive harbour wall along the river banks. ##RomanFortThursday

#RomanFortThursday & a couple from Nidum, now Neath
fiirst the remains of the east gate, inc the Vallum ditch
& then the south gate

Vindolanda Roman fort is famous for its wooden writing tablet finds. It was built before the Hadrian's Wall but after the Roman armies left it remained in use for over 400 years before finally being abandoned in the 9th century. #RomanFortThursday

The remains of the angle tower at the south-east corner of the Roman legionary fortress at Chester (Deva). My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Chester

one more shot from the morning at Silchester, rather partial to this one & since the #Snowdrops are still just about in season

Qasr al-Azraq is one of the desert fortresses in Jordan, located on the outskirts of Azraq. It lies near an oasis, an important strategic point. It was built in the 4th century but rebuilt in 1237 and reused until the 16th century and in 1917-1918. #RomanFortThursday

Some light morning mist around the walls of Calleva Atrebatum this week, now better known as Silchester

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The remains of one of the towers at Hardknott Roman Fort in Cumbria. Located on the western side of the Hardknott Pass at 800 feet, the fort was built between AD120 and AD138. My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology

Not all about Roman forts is found out through excavation. The heatwave in 2018 uncovered new details of the fort at Trawscoed, Ceredigion in Wales. It was an auxillary fort on a Roman road. Photo: Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. #RomanFortThursday