What’s fact and what’s fiction? We’ve looked at the Roman invasion of Britain in 43AD and debunked some common myths about that era, for those times you just can’t think of anything else.

This map shows the approximate location of the major tribes who lived in Britain at the time of the Roman Conquest of Britain in the First Century AD. The sole source for the existence and ...

"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, but also played a role in the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a catastrophic ...

Described by experts as an “archaeological time capsule,” the hoard is thought to have been buried in the first century AD, coinciding with the Roman conquest of southern Britain. Among the ...

So wrote Gildas, a sixth-century British monk, describing the Germanic conquest of Britain shortly after the end of Roman rule. His account of this bloody war endured, as did the belief that the ...

Roman Britain's main produce were crops like spelt ... to invade the province en masse with the intention of raiding rather than conquest. Their finding that the most severe conditions were ...

Roman forces reached the borders of Wales in AD 48, five years after they had begun their conquest of Britain. At that time, of course, Wales did not exist in any meaningful sense. Its people ...

The analysis, based on the growth rings of oaks from southern Britain, made it possible to reconstruct temperature and precipitation levels at the time and connect them to Roman accounts of food ...

This coin would have been over 200 years old when it was buried in the mid 1st century AD, around the time of the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43. Did the coin arrive as part of a diplomatic ...