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The reconstructed North Gate of the Roman Fort at Castlefield in Manchester (Mamucium). The reconstruction depicts how the gateway would have looked in around AD 200. 📸 My on. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Manchester
October 29, 2026 at 6:57 AM
lindsaypowell.bsky.social
From animals draped over the officers’ helmets to decorations for valour and the unit standards, each had meaning and commanded respect.
Photo: The Ermine Street Guard.
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From animals draped over the officers’ helmets to decorations for valour and the unit standards, each had meaning and commanded respect. Photo: The Ermine Street Guard. #RomanFortThursday
October 29, 2026 at 6:01 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Discovered by Norman Field in the 1960s and partially excavated through the 1970s and 80s then fully surveyed by @buarchanth.bsky.social, the legionary fortress at Lake Farm, Wimborne Minster #Dorset may finally be getting the protection it deserves 🤞

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vikkislademp.bsky.social Vikki Slade MP @vikkislademp.bsky.social · 10d
A fascinating morning at the Wimborne history event showcasing the incredible Roman fort at Lake Farm and sharing the incredible links to the Roman invasion AD43
I’m pleased to be supporting the project”s ambition to buy and develop this site which links to Emperor Vespasian who built the colosseum
Vikki with two members of the reenactment team Images of the fort and assuciairec buildings A roman guard at allendale house
October 29, 2026 at 7:43 AM
raypurvis.bsky.social
Part of Hadrian's Wall in mile 27. Coming up from the North Tyne river crossing to meet the east wall of Chesters Roman Fort, (Cilurnum). #hadrianswall #followtheacorn #RomanFortThursday
Part of Hadrian's Wall in mile 27. Coming up from the North Tyne river crossing to meet the east wall of Chesters Roman Fort, (Cilurnum).
October 29, 2026 at 7:03 AM
druidtombraider.bsky.social
Ambleside Roman fort, located at the north end of Windermere, on the eastern banks of the Brathay and Rothay rivers; courtesy of Bill Boaden. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology
October 29, 2026 at 12:31 PM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Mercury Rising: a small bust of the Roman god found during excavations at the fort of Waddon Hill #Dorset in the 1960s

Now in the excellent Bridport Museum

Built by the Legio II Augusta in the mid 1st c AD, the fort has been badly damaged by stone quarries 😥

📷 Feb 2023

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Small copper alloy bust of the Roman god Mercury wearing his distinctive winged helmet on display in a museum case
October 29, 2026 at 7:52 AM
archaeohawke.bsky.social
An artistic #RomanFortThursday by Artist Alan Ernest Sorrell.

Chester's Roman Fort, c2nd century, Hadrian's wall, Northumberland.

Reconstruction drawing of aerial view of fort. Built just after the wall was completed in AD 123, Chesters is the best preserved Roman Cavalry Fort in Britain.
It seems very likely that Chesters was the Roman Cilurnum referred to in the late Roman Military List Notitia Dignitatum, established first as a station for cavalry and, later, footsoldiers. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
October 29, 2026 at 8:46 AM
stelingard.bsky.social
The earthworks of Brocavum Roman fort, with the #BroughamCastle in the background. The site is at the confluence of the rivers Eamont and Lowther, and not far from where major N/S and E/W Roman roads meet. The landscape speaks.

📷 My own, shivering in Jan 2020

#RomanFortThursday #Westmorland
A colour landscape aspect photograph of open grassland being grazed by sheep, with a ruined castle in the middle distance. The grassland has some clear linear earthworks, with a ditch in the foreground and a bank behind.
October 29, 2026 at 1:04 PM
kateullman.bsky.social
Here's a #RomanFortThursday pic taken a couple of days ago at Tomen y Mur, Gwynedd near Llyn Trawsfynydd. What an incredible place - earthworks remaining giving more than a hint of what was once here, including the very visible amphitheatre.
Colour photo of moorland with mountains in the background and a glimpse of a lake. The view takes in the site of Tomen y Mur, once a Roman fort. What remains is earthworks hinting at buildings that were once there. The amphitheatre is on the right, a section is protected by a length of hessian which stands out on the picture against the green and brown of the moorland.
October 29, 2026 at 8:10 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Stretching the definition of *hillfort* for sure 🤣

BUT definitely

Fort ✅️
Up a hill ✅️

And undisputably one for #Romanfortthursday 😊👍

(also terrible pun 😱😆😆)
October 28, 2026 at 8:47 AM
gladiushispania.bsky.social
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Portchester, desde el siglo III cuando se estableció una fortaleza romana y se creé que fué construido por Marco Aurelio Carausio siguiendo las instrucciones del emperador Diocleciano.
Hampshire 🇬🇧 Reino Unido.
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#AncientBluesky
Portchester, desde el siglo III cuando se estableció una fortaleza romana y se creé que fué construido por Marco Aurelio Carausio siguiendo las instrucciones del emperador Diocleciano. Hampshire 🇬🇧 Reino Unido. 📷 Graham Tiller
October 29, 2026 at 1:45 PM
observethedate.bsky.social
Thursday
#AdoorableThursday
#BookologyThursday
#BridgesThursday
#FolkloreThursday
#GlassObjectThursday
#HelmetThursday
#InsectThursday
#IronworkThursday
#MetalWorkThursday
#OrchidThursday
#PubSignThursday
#RomanFortThursday
#ThatchThursday
#ThrowBackThursday
#ThursdayBins
#ThursdayChairs
#Thursgate
October 29, 2026 at 6:49 AM
kpw1453.bsky.social
The northern defences of Birrens Roman Fort (Blatobulgium) in Dumfriesshire - an outpost fort for Hadrian’s Wall. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Birrens
October 22, 2026 at 4:38 AM
lindsaypowell.bsky.social
Awaiting the order to deploy 'in hiberna' ('to winter camp').
Photo: The Ermine Street Guard.
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Awaiting the order to deploy 'in hiberna' ('to winter camp'). Photo: The Ermine Street Guard. #RomanFortThursday
October 22, 2026 at 4:09 AM
druidtombraider.bsky.social
The southern wall of Richborough Castle Roman Fort, courtesy of Rob Farrow. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology
October 22, 2026 at 11:39 AM
archaeohawke.bsky.social
Bonna, modern Bonn, was a #Roman fortress opposite the confluence of the frontier river Rhine and built by prince Drusus between 16/15 and 13 BCE. This new fortress was occupied by the First Legion Germanica
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#History
October 22, 2026 at 7:16 PM
theduncanmackay.bsky.social
So who else would like to be wearing a 1970s Lunt Roman Fort souvenir lapel badge this #RomanFortThursday ??
Yeah, bet you would…
Souvenir Roman fort badge, brown with picture of a timber gatehouse.
October 22, 2026 at 8:18 AM
drtobydriver.bsky.social
One of the more remote fortifications in Britannia for #RomanFortThursday

The earthwork remains of a Roman watchtower on the rocky summit of Penbrynyreglwys, above Carmel Head on NW Anglesey, commanding the northwest seaways of Wales overlooking Holyhead harbour

📷 My own last week
October 22, 2026 at 8:16 AM
trimontiumtrust.bsky.social
🏛️👻 #RomanFortThursday: Beneath a building outside Housesteads Roman Fort, archaeologists found a man & woman buried under the floor — with a broken sword blade embedded in the man’s ribs. Who were they, & what happened? Centuries later, the mystery endures… #RomanBritain
Aerial view of Housesteads Roman Fort, photo credit: Lieven Smits, CC
October 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
raypurvis.bsky.social
Barracks at Chesters Roman Fort, (Cilurnum). #hadrianswall #followtheacorn #RomanFortThursday
Barracks at Chesters Roman Fort, (Cilurnum). The standing remains of the stone built buildings.
October 22, 2026 at 6:54 AM
mark-walters.bsky.social
For #RomanFortThursday here’s a smaller fortlet on top of Penycrocbren hill, Dylife in Powys, Mid Wales. It lies next to a Roman road over the ridge & north of the linear remains of early lead mines. To the west is a gibbet site on a Bronze Age burial mound. The fortlet dates to the 2nd c.
October 22, 2026 at 8:55 AM
romansites.bsky.social
The east gate at Birdoswald is the best preserved of any of the forts on Hadrian's Wall, while nearby sections of the Wall itself are easily accessible.

More on Birdoswald in a new blog: visiting-roman-sites.blogspot.com/2026/10/bird...

#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall
October 22, 2026 at 7:11 AM
oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
Spotted this gem in the Cambridge Museum of Arch & Anth

Naked women racing chariots pulled by teams of penises, each with birds feet... The Romans were an interesting people 😂

#PhallusThursday

📸 Mine

From Roman Cambridge (Duroliponte), c.3rd century AD

🏺 #archaeology #RomanFortThursday
A large roman beaker on a museum stand with graphic reliefs, described in main post
October 22, 2026 at 12:17 PM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Remains of a Roman bathhouse, added to the interior of Caernarfon (SEGONTIVM) Roman auxiliary fort #Gwynedd in the 3rd century AD

Excavated by Mortimer and Tessa Verney Wheeler between 1921-23

Sadly missed by most modern visitors to the town

📷 Aug 2008

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The masonry foundations of a Roman bath surrounded by green grsss with trees and modern houses in the distance
October 22, 2026 at 6:58 AM
observethedate.bsky.social
#AdoorableThursday
#BookologyThursday
#BridgesThursday
#FolkloreThursday
#GlassObjectThursday
#HelmetThursday
#InsectThursday
#IronworkThursday
#MetalWorkThursday
#OrchidThursday
#PubSignThursday
#RomanFortThursday
#ThatchThursday
#ThrowBackThursday
#ThursdayBins
#ThursdayChairs
#Thursgate
October 22, 2026 at 5:54 AM