BETTANY HUGHES: Close on 2,000 years ago, the Romans arrived in Britain. They ruled over our nation for almost 400 years, bringing with them Roman soldiers with deadly weaponry to build defensive ...

At the northern limit of the Roman Empire was Britain. Soldiers and their families found it to be a cold, remote, hostile place with little to do. Like soldiers ever since, they spent much of ...

Experts Stumble on a Rare Roman-Era Bronze Brooch Hidden Under a Foundation Trench That Was Used for Household Protection ...

The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The soldiers were the best trained ...

Researchers have found a Roman brooch in the foundation of an Iron Age house in Scotland, but what was it doing there?

If the inhabitants had established regular trade with Roman Britain, we might expect to find ... of Hadrian's Wall on the cloak of a Roman soldier tasked with garrisoning the empire's northernmost ...

It was ‘terrarum fine’ - the end of the world - and for around 20,000 soldiers who had marched north, crossing hills, swamps and rivers to ...