The Best Hidden Roman Historic Sites of Britain
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- 00:00 Introduction
01:45 Venta Icenorum
05:48 Viroconium
08:58 Caerwent
12:30 Caister-On-Sea
16:10 Verulanium
21:00 Outro
Well I've taken a month break from posting, but I am now back with my personal favourite Roman sites which are hidden in the British countryside.
I've purposefully chosen some lesser known sites rather than the obvious candidates like Hadrian's Wall, the Roman Baths of Bath, or the town walls of Londinium.
Enjoy!
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It’s vital that people are aware of and understand archaeological sites in order to protect them and enable ongoing research. Well researched and presented material such as yours can only help. I rather like some of the very minor sites; the temple on Maiden Castle and the Roman milestone on the eastern approach to Dorchester for example. Also the Roman reuse of Whaddon, Hod and other hillforts. Keep up the good work.
I found some tesserae dug up by a mole at the temple on Maiden Castle 🙂
Good ol' moles!
I visited Maiden Castle 2 years ago, I had read a lot about it but I was still gobsmacked at the sheer scale of it. I certainly need to revisit soon!
@@AlexTheHistoryGuy Tis Girt, as they say down there 😁If you get a chance to visit Seaton in Devon, I could tell you where to see the actual Roman road 🙂
I'm always open for new places to visit!
I've visited Viroconium a few times and can highly recommend it. You can still make out the roman property boundaries in the layout of the fields and the farm that lay within what were once the city's boundaries, and the road through the site was once the city's main street.
Also check out the church in the nearby village of Wroxeter, which is built largely from repurposed roman masonry, and whose font is an upturned and hollowed out roman column base.
YES. I live a few miles away from St Alban's, & I've visited the site more than once.
I like to check out the Roman masonry/bricks in the external cathedral walls, and to be able to touch & feel these ancient historical fragments is wonderful!
I also have a knack of turning up for things when they're closed/shut down🙄 ie the Roman amphitheatre at VERULAMIVM/St A's doesn't have the same opening times as the museum!
Thanks for the info on the church, I do love a good ol' church to visit!
@@AlexTheHistoryGuy I can recommend several churches worth visiting in & around Yorkshire, if you're ever in the area. There are some real gems hidden away in the Yorkshire Dales, some of Saxon origin. or medieval churches which survive in a largely unaltered state because there was no dramatic population rise such as in the more industrial areas.
What about the Antonine Wall? It was in use from AD141 to AD161. and it runs from Old Kilpatrick, on the west coast of Scotland, to Bo'ness, on the east coast. Rough Castle is probably the best known fort on the Antonine Wall. There's also the Ardoch Roman Fort, which can be found on the edge of the village of Braco, in Perthshire. So, the Ardoch Roman Fort is actually located beyond the Antonine Wall.
That is certainly a great contender and a rather hidden historic site compared to its much more famous brother the Hadrian's wall...I'll be honest, I didn't include it because I haven't visited it so I have no footage of it haha. All the footage you see in my videos is my own.
YES! This is an absolute MUST.
LIVINGSTON is next or near part of it; it's on my bucket 🪣 list.
THAT'S watch the AstroTurf boys, LFC⚽, & visit the AW.
ANYBODY been to the Saxon Shore fort remains at Richborough Kent?
Thank you for highlighting these and referring to a couple others. I really enjoyed this video
My pleasure! Hopefully you'll be able to visit one or two!
@@AlexTheHistoryGuy sadly not but having you to share things like this are almost as good as being there
I appreciate your naming of artifacts in both Latin and English.
You have no idea how many attempts some of those place names took while recording haha. Gloucester's Roman name was particularly tricky. Also I realised I spelled Amphitheatre wrong. Woops!
What really bugs me is we don't know the Latin names of the Roman roads built in Britain.
There are still people in Norfolk who think Venta is too modern and scary, but they mostly only come out on a full moon.
Hahaha oi you're speaking to one of those local people right now ;) now where's my pitchfork made out of flint...
@@AlexTheHistoryGuy In Kent we still classify Lighthouses as witchcraft 😁
Excellent video. Venta Icenorum is local to me and an amazing site. Really enjoyed this production. Subscribed!
Ayy lovely stuff, yeah Venta is an amazing place full of secrets!
Great content! Keep up the good work
Thank you! Much appreciated. Be sure to check out my top 5 medieval hidden historic sites video ;)
3/5 for me here!
YEARS ago I used to visit Roman sites with my Dad; well it was easy with the family car.
BUT recently, last summer I decided to revisit one site that my Father & I visited over 43 years ago; the Leicester Jewry Wall site.
I was expecting along with the site, that the onsite museum would be open.
WELL. It wasn't. The site was locked up, & the museum looked like it had been shut for years. All I could do was peer through the railings, & the dirty windows of the museum.
ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC LEICESTER CITY COUNCIL!!
I like the small Roman sites that are overlooked, & not overrun with gawping sightseers; Roman Wall LETOCETVM comes to mind in the East Midlands.
I'VE still got all the guidebooks of the sites that we visited.
Yes Leicester's Roman archaeology is second only to Cirencester outside London
There were exiting plans to redevelop and expand the museum however it appears this has been put on the backburner
Sadly it doesn't seem to be worthy of Lottery cash and EU funds ceased with Brexit
@@stephenchappell7512 YES, but they, LC council, could afford to keep it open over 40 years ago; before Brexit, & the National 'robbery' ie lottery.
THERE'S a H🔥LL of alot of waste, extravagance, etc going on with local taxpayers 💷💷
RIDICULOUSLY high salaries for council officials etc etc
MAYBE Leicestershire folk aren't that interested in their ancient past; & I'm not talking about Filbert street😉🦊
@@georgeroberts-morehen9147
Probably because it ain't
'their past' if you get my drift?
@@stephenchappell7512 I catch your drift 😉
HAVING seen the city centre last summer I would say they only seem to be interested in eating!
I did have sushi last time I went on a historical tour of Leicester and I can say it was delicious haha. But yes I know what you mean, every shop was either for clothes or food.
Are there any decent museums around Leicester? I only had the chance to visit for one evening
Very interesting content , Thanks.
Thank you (:
Great list. I'd suggest 5 Northern sites: Ravenglass bathhouse, and the forts, High Rochester and Ardoch along with the already mentioned Antonine Wall. But I object to the use of the term "Anglo-Roman" (it's also amphitheatre not ampitheatre)
absolutely agree about High Riochester, great site
@@jonathans183
Yep most northerly Roman site with surviving masonry in the Empire and
yet it's not even properly signposted
Honestly I wish I could venture around Scotland way more often but I live in Norfolk so it takes a lot of time and planning for me to go that far north haha.
And yes I know Anglo-Roman isn't a great word but I sometimes have to simplify my wording to help the standard viewer understand easier.
Perhaps Romano-British would be better!
I enjoyed that 🙂
Thanks! Feel free to enjoy my other videos too :)
the dog at 9:56 had me tripping out....
How did I not notice this in editing?? Scared me too!
For two different types of bath house try Binchester Fort Bishop Auckland. The one outside the walls stands above the windows, and doors
I shall have to check it out, thanks!
@@AlexTheHistoryGuy when you check it out, also look at the Dera bridge at Pierce ridge There are others that are not the wall all over the NORTH
Will do!
Perhaps this is just one more advantage we in North America have over Western Europe. Our history starts at least 1500 years after the Roman occupation of Britain.
One result of the rather abbreviated history European here means that we are not much troubled by long buried and destroyed Roman, Anglo-Saxon, or Norman ruins when we dig.
It wasn't that long ago, perhaps when the UK was at or nearing its height of power, that the ruins and gravesites of people who lived a thousand years before were not subjected to the amount of almost cultish reverence. Back then, progress trumped nostalgic movements to preserve and venerate the bones of the long dead civilization that came before.
I suppose if one's recent past and probable future are somewhat bleak, then a huge investment in the glorification of the relics of a successful and ancient history makes some sense.
I wouldn't necessarily call it an advantage.
A passion for history encourages positive traits such as respect, morality, courtesy and inspiration. So I believe it is incredibly important and pretty much vital for a human to study the history of their ancestry to help put everything in perspective and understand how we got here as a race of people.
For as long as communication first began, we have been respecting and keeping our histories alive, such as the Iceni who continued visiting the Woodhenge of Arminghall despite it being built 2,500 years before the Iceni people lived on the land. The Romans respected their traditions so they allowed the henge to stay despite being of a different culture.
The Normans then respected the surviving Romanesque architecture from 1,000 years before them, and used the architectural style for many of their most proud construction achievements such as the Bayeux Cathedral.
The medieval people kept the dark-age legends of King Arthur and other folklore alive and it's thanks to them that we have the legends and myths that we do today which are engrained in our traditional cultures.
The Victorians also respected high medieval architecture in the form of the 13th century English Gothic style and built some of the most grand buildings such as the Natural History Museum in London or the John the Baptists Cathedral of Norwich in this 13th century style.
But, if you want to bulldoze all that to build another Walmart or McDonalds then that's your prerogative I guess.
Just found this video, and unusually, you told me things I was unaware of. I'm well impressed with your video.
Great video, and you deserve more views.
P.S. After at least ten years on UA-cam, this is my first-ever comment.
Thank you! This means so much to me and you've just explained the whole reason I make UA-cam videos! Highlighting the lesser known historic sites of Britain.
Feel free to check out my similar video on my favourite medieval hidden historic sites :)
During WW2 my mum was sheltering in the basement of Colchester Castle when a German bomb hit it. Lucky for my Mum and i suppose me, it was a dud and didn't go off. But one hit where the fish pond next to it is or was and did.
Oh lord, that sounds awfully scary! A lot of bombs were dropped on Norwich too, there are many scary stories about those!
Thank you…the ancient Romans did great things!👍
My pleasure:)
The Romans were very good Road Builders.
They were, but the grand stone roads you often see in history books weren't actually as common as the books like to make out. They were mainly reserved for towns and cities then as soon as you exit the gatehouse you'd be on a dirt road. The iron age indigenous people did most of the work laying down the roads before the Romans arrived as well.
Thank you.
@@AlexTheHistoryGuy AH but were they, the Celts, indigenous to Britain?
AND to be fair the Roman economy in Britannia was largely urban.
Depends how long someone has to live somewhere before they are considered indigenous ;) and while we are here - what exactly defines a Celt? Haha
I love your videos. They are most informative but please, PLEASE learn how to say the word THREE! It is not free!
Haha sorry it's my Norfolk accent possibly. I never pronounced the "th" sound, it's always been "f"
A great video only spoilt by your seeming inability to pronounce th in words and inserting an f or a v. Such a shame.
Haha I've had that issue all my life. I don't know whether it's my Norfolk dialect or it's just a weird quirk I developed but I've never been able to pronounce the TH sound
DAM IT! I missed that.
AS a graduate linguist I will have to listen to this again.
I caught that too, and 'Ventna' once or twice, not to mention mis-spelling of Verulamium . . .
I feel bullied :D
Don't indulge in self-pity - you're below par. Accept constructive criticism and work to improve. @@AlexTheHistoryGuy