Roman Britain

Roman
Britain
The Roman Republic
Julius Caesar
Caligula
“On the shore stood the opposing army with its dense array of armed
warriors, while between the ranks dashed women, in black attire like
the Furies, with hair dishevelled, waving brands. All around, the Druids,
lifting up their hands to heaven, and pouring forth dreadful
imprecations, scared our soldiers by the unfamiliar sight …”
-Cassius Dio, Roman History
Domitian
Hadrian’s Wall
Clodius Albinus v Septimius Severus
Posthumus
Deva (Chester)
• Eburacum
• Eoforwic
• Jorvik
• York
• Lindon / “Lindum”
• Lindum Colonia
• Lincoln
Pertinax
Stilicho
Constantine
Chi Rho
Pictish symbol
Abernethy, Scotland
Nydam ship
"And the barbarians from beyond the Rhine, ravaging everything at
their pleasure, put both the Britons and some of the Gauls to the
necessity of making defection from the Roman empire, and of setting
up for themselves, no longer obeying Roman laws. The Britons
therefore took up arms, and engaged in many dangerous enterprises
for their own protection, until they had freed their cities from the
barbarians who besieged them.“
-Zosimus
Honorius
“Again, therefore, the wretched remnant, sending to Ætius, a powerful
Roman citizen, address him as follows:-
‘To Ætius, now consul for the third time: the groans of the Britons.…
The barbarians drive us to the sea; the sea throws us back on the
barbarians: thus two modes of death await us, we are either slain or
drowned.’ “
Cadbury Hill, Somerset
Skellig Michael monastery