The study used oak tree-ring records to reconstruct temperature and precipitation levels in southern Britain during and after the "Barbarian Conspiracy" in 367 CE. Combining this data with ...

A new study from the University of Cambridge has uncovered strong evidence that extreme drought played a key role in one of Roman Britain’s most chaotic and devastating events: the “Barbarian ...

An ancient oak tree thought to be more than 400 years old ... chunks of branches strewn on the ground around it, its thick rings exposed like severed limbs. Although this oak has not starred ...