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@romansites.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 6:00 PM

A short hop over the Channel, Lillebonne contains the largest and best preserved Roman theatre in northern France. But is it an amphitheatre? Or could it be ... both?

New blog:
visiting-roman-sites.blogspot.com/2026/09/lill...

#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanSites

@romansites.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 3:19 PM

The warm room (tepidarium) and cold plunge pool (brr!) in the west range at Chedworth, Gloucestershire, UK. The villa reached its peak in the 4th century CE, and was occupied into the 5th century after Roman rule had ended.
📷 my photos 2026
#RomanSiteSaturday
#RomanBritain
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@lindsaypowell.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 2:48 PM

The Temple of Dendur
(Roman period, reign of Augustus, building completed by 10 BC; from Nubia, Dendur). In The Met, NYC.
Photo is my own.
#RomanSiteSaturday

The Temple of Dendur
(Roman period, reign of Augustus, building completed by 10 BC; from Nubia, Dendur). In the @metmuseum, NYC.
Photo is my own.
#RomanSiteSaturday

@druidtombraider.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 12:19 PM

The northern curved end (sphendone) of the Roman Stadium of Philippopolis, now Plovdiv, Bulgaria, built in the early 2nd century AD, it could accommodate up to 30,000 spectators; courtesy of Carole Raddato. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

@oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 7:47 AM

The remains of St Peter's Basilica, a 5th century Roman church in the provincial town of Sicca Veneria, now in Tunisia

The Roman town is now largely buried under an Ottoman-era fortress and the modern city of El Kef

📸 Mine

🏺 #RomanSiteSaturday #archaeology

A courtyard area with multiple low Roman ruins and column bases amongst green bushes and low trees

@kpw1453.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 6:34 AM

The remains of the north gateway of Milecastle 37, just west of Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall #Northumberland

@observethedate.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 6:10 AM

Saturday

#BookwormSat
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#Caturday
#ChessSaturday
#NonFictionSaturday
#PostboxSaturday
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#SarcophagusSaturday
#SaturdayMono
#SaturdayStatue
#SaturdayStripes
#SaturdaySwans
#SculptureSaturday
#SixOnSaturday
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#StaircaseSaturday
#SaturdayStairs

@lindsaypowell.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 6:58 PM

"The “Painted City” fresco and “Great Mosaic” were discovered in an underground gallery during excavations in the 1990s of the Baths of Trajan on the Oppian Hill near the Colosseum."
#MosaicMonday #FrescoFriday #RomanSiteSaturday
www.euronews.com/culture/2026...

@followinghadrian.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 5:06 PM

#RomanSiteSaturday - The Sacred Area of Largo di Torre Argentina is one of Rome’s most important Republican-period archaeological complexes. Discovered during demolition work in 1926, it preserves four temples, conventionally labelled A–D because their precise identifications remain uncertain.

Temple A. Based on the architectural forms of its oldest construction phase, Temple A is dated to the 3rd century BC. Together with Temple C, it is generally considered one of the oldest sacred buildings on Campus Martius. The building can probably be identified with the temple the consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus had built in honour of Juturna following the triumph over the Carthaginians in 241 BC. The original structure, which stood on a high tuff podium with four columns along the front, was accessed via an impressive staircase with 18 steps. Later reconstruction works, which involved raising the podium, replacing two columns, and raising the others, can be dated to the reign of Domitian after the fire of AD 80.

Temple B dates to the late 2nd/early 1st century BC, with 90 BC considered the probable year of construction. Temple B has a circular plan and is set on a high podium reached by a staircase flanked by two tuff walls. Most scholars identify it with the temple of Fortuna Huiusce Diei, dedicated by the consul Quintus Lutatius Catulus after the Battle of Vercellae in 101 BC, which ended the war against the Cimbri. Over time, this temple underwent numerous transformations. It was originally peripteral, with a central cella surrounded by 18 tuff columns. At the beginning of the 1st century BC, the temple became speudoperipteral. The cella was enlarged and covered with peperino.

Temple C dates to the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 3rd century BC. The sanctuary appears to have been one of the oldest in the Campus Martius. The building was probably dedicated to the goddess Feronia, whose cult was introduced to Rome after the consul Manius Curius Dentatus conquered the Sabines in 290 BC. The original plan had four columns at the front and five on the sides. It stood on a high podium of tuff opus quadratum, reached by a staircase of 20 steps. Later, a large raised platform was built in front of the temple, and an altar in the centre bears a dedicatory inscription by Aulus Postumius Albinus. Under Domitian, after the fire in AD 80, the cellar was restored with brick-lined walls and a mosaic floor.

Temple D is the southernmost and largest cult building in the Area Sacra at Largo Argentina. Its origins date back to the early 2nd century BC at the earliest. The temple, dedicated to the Nymphs or, according to other hypotheses, to the Lares Permarini, protectors of seafarers, is preserved mainly beneath the current Via Florida. The facade, which probably had six columns, was aligned with the other sacred buildings. Very little is known about the original building, as it was enlarged and completely renovated at the end of the 1st century AD.

@archaeohawke.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 1:21 PM

#RomanSiteSaturday

Forum dedication with titles of Hadrian, from Wroxeter - 129-130AD. The town had friends in high places.

'holding tribunician power for the fourteenth time, consul three times, Father of the Fatherland, the Civitas of the Cornovii.'
#History #Archaeology

@shirleyrl.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 12:34 PM

Our 56th Wedding Anniversary today and we're celebrating with our son @jackjl.bsky.social - high up in the #LakeDistrict at #HardknottPass #Romans #RomanSiteSaturday

@roamintheempire.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 12:08 PM

New post this week! The second and final part on ancient Kisamos finishes up with necropoli an an ancient road, and a great museum with a couple of top tier mosaics, among other objects:

www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20...

#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺

@druidtombraider.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 11:19 AM

The Ancestors' Cult Hall of the family of Opramoas, Rhodiapolis, Lycia, Türkiye; courtesy of Carole Raddato. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

@colinruneckles.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 9:25 AM

By sheer coincidence I am going back seven years today when I turned 60 and went to see the Oppidum d'Entremont so this is my #RomanSiteSaturday.

So I spent my birthday in a field with absolutely nobody else around. As one does.

@durotrigesdig.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 9:25 AM

The multipurpose Maumbury Rings, Dorchester #Dorset

A Roman amphitheatre created in the late 1st century AD

Built out of the remains of a 3rd millenium BC Late Neolithic henge

Modified for artillery use in the 17th century

Used in the 18th century for execution

📷 Sept 2025

#RomanSiteSaturday

The grass covered, tree lined oval earthworks of a Roman amphitheatre, modern steps in foreground, on a sunny day looking to the centre where a beast fighter is about to take on a leopard watched by a baying mob of 12 people

Possibly not true about the leopard

@formerlytankiemike.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 8:39 AM

The Roman Fortlet/Signal Station above the Valley of Stones, Dorset.
Recently cleared of bracken.
Situated on Black Down, it has line of site to Durnovaria and north-west to the known Roman fort on Waddon Hill.
#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology
#ValleyofStones

@ullamr.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 7:48 AM

The Fosse Way is a Roman road in Britain that ran from Exeter to Lincoln. It was built during the earliest phase of the Roman occupation. It once marked the frontier of the empire's British province. This photo is from the Albion Endeby excavations south of Leicester (Ratae). #RomanSiteSaturday

@sistoryhistory.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 7:45 AM

Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian's Wall - surely the most beautiful spot for a bathhouse 🛁💧?

Happy #romansitesaturday 🩷!

#hadrianswall #romanbritain #skystorians #archaeology #romanmilitary