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TEACHERS<br />
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Wroxeter<br />
Romans in Britain – Some<br />
important sites<br />
Vindolanda<br />
The first fort on this site was built in 85 AD on the Stanegate frontier. The wooden writing tablets<br />
were badly decayed but a great deal of the written information has been preserved. The tablets list<br />
foods such as garlic, radishes, beans etc. and contain many letters, one of which says ‘I implore<br />
your majesty not to allow me, an innocent man, to be beaten with rods’.<br />
The tombstone inscription tells us it was Marcus Petronius, a 38-year-old soldier of the 14th legion.<br />
Thetford<br />
The quality of the workmanship on the artefacts suggests that they were made in the fourth century AD.<br />
Corbridge<br />
In the damp British climate the Romans dried grain in a granary. The grain was strewn on wooden floors laid<br />
on top of stone pillars. Air circulating underneath dried the grain.<br />
Bath<br />
People came to swim in the medicinal waters and pray to Sulis, a Celtic goddess the Romans associated with<br />
their goddess, Minerva. The baths are still used but the health-giving waters have recently been contaminated<br />
with bacteria.<br />
Britain became rich under Roman rule for the invaders mined lead, tin in Cornwall, iron, silver and copper. The<br />
remains of a Roman goldmine have been unearthed in Wales. The kilns used by the Romans were advanced for<br />
the time and there have been frequent finds of pottery on their military sites throughout Britain. Recent excavations<br />
at Fishbourne in Sussex have revealed a Roman palace.<br />
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– 76 – <strong>Ancient</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> Prim-Ed Publishing www.prim-ed.com
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