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Dubris or Portus Dubris, Roman name for Roman-founded town of Dover, Kent, England. Image File history File links ROMANHARBOURDOVER.gif Summary http://www. ...
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History - Ancient history - Ancient Rome This is a List of Ancient Rome-related topics, that aims to include aspects of both the Ancient Roman Republic and Roman Empire. ...
Map sources for Dover at grid reference TR315415 Arms of Dover Borough Council This article is about the English port town. ...
Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ...
As the river estuary of the River Stour, Kent (now silted up) and the closest point to France, in Roman times the town became an important harbour of the Classis Britannica, an important fortified trading and cross-channel port and a starting point of Watling Street. Estuaries and coastal waters are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing numerous ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits and services. ...
The River Stour is a river in Kent, England. ...
Silt refers to soil or rock particles of a certain very small size range (see grain size). ...
For other senses of this name, see Roman Empire (disambiguation). ...
The Roman Navy (Latin: Classis) operated between the First Punic war and the end of the Western Roman Empire. ...
The modern Watling Street crossing the Medway at Rochester near the Roman and Celt crossings Watling Street is the name given to a British ancient trackway which was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern cities of Canterbury and St Albans. ...
Caesar Britons on the cliffs at Dover forced Caesar to land further north, at Walmer. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x629, 11 KB) Summary http://www. ...
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Location within the British Isles Walmer is in Dover District, Kent in England: located on the coast, the parish of Walmer is 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Dover. ...
Classis Britannica fort The Roman fleet in British waters, the Classis Britannica had the purpose to safeguard the Gaul to Britain routes and support the land army in Britannia, not to defend the British Isles from invasion. For this reason its main fort was in Portus Itius (Boulogne-sur-Mer, called also Gesoriacum or Bononia), not Dover. However, it did have other, smaller bases in Britannia, at Rutupiae and Dubris. Image File history File linksMetadata London_25th&26th_Feb_and_Lichfield_4th_Mar_399. ...
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Dover Museum is a museum in Dover, Kent, in south-east England. ...
The Roman Navy (Latin: Classis) operated between the First Punic war and the end of the Western Roman Empire. ...
Britannia, the British national personification. ...
Itius Portus was the name given by Julius Caesar to the chief harbour which he used when embarking for his second expedition to Britain in 54 BC (de Bello Gallico, V.2). ...
Boulogne-sur-Mer is a city and commune in northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais département of which it is a sous-préfecture. ...
Map sources for Rutupiae at grid reference TR3361 Ruins Richborough Castle Rutupiae was the Roman name for Richborough near Sandwich, Kent, which they founded. ...
The remains of the fort at Dubris are now to be seen at the Painted House, and in the basement and grounds of the town library (the former White Cliffs Experience). Roman Dover Dubris or Portus Dubris, Roman name for Roman-founded town of Dover, Kent, England. ...
The new A258/York Street bypass, built when the fort was discovered, was inclined to protect the buried remains.
Lighthouses Two lighthouses, each called the Pharos, were built soon after the conquest. Proposals of their date range from 50 (only seven years after the invasion of 43), 80 or (since the building includes tiles identical to the mansio in the town built at that date) c.138. They were sited on the two heights (Eastern Heights and Western Heights) and modelled on the one built for Caligula's aborted invasion at Boulogne. The one on the Eastern Heights still stands in the grounds of Dover Castle to 80 foot (24 m) high close to its original height, and has been adapted for use as the bell tower of the adjacent castle church. What little remains of the western lighthouse is called the Bredenstone or the Devil's Drop of Mortar after the putative nearby lost village of Braddon, within Drop Redoubt on Dover Western Heights - it was covered in the 18th century building works but then rediscovered in fresh works in the 1860s, and was the traditional site of the investiture of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.[1] Download high resolution version (768x1024, 631 KB)Lightened and set levels. ...
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Dover Castle is situated in Kent and has been described as the Key to England due to its defensive significance throughout history. ...
The Peggys Point lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada An aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. ...
Pharos is: a small island off the Egyptian coast that hosted the Lighthouse of Alexandria the etymological origin of the word lighthouse in many Romance languages, such as French (phare), Italian (faro) and Spanish (faro) Latin name for the Greek/Roman colony on the island of Hvar in the Adriatic...
Events Roman Empire Londinium is founded by the Romans, taking over as capital of the local Roman province, from Colchester (approximate date) Roman Emperor Claudius appoints Agrippa II governor of Chalcis. ...
Britain was the target of invasion by forces of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire several times during its history. ...
For other uses, see number 80. ...
Events February 25 - Roman emperor Hadrian adopted Antoninus Pius on condition that Antonius would adopt Marcus Annius Aurelius Verus. ...
Western Heights, may refer to: Dover Western Heights, Kent County, England Western Heights, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland Western Heights College, Victoria, Australia Western Heights Cemetery, burial place of Clyde Barrow of Bonnie and Clyde Western Heights Public Schools, a school district in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma This is a...
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (August 31, 12 – January 24, 41), most commonly known as Caligula, was the third Roman Emperor and a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from 37 to 41. ...
Britain was the target of invasion by forces of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire several times during its history. ...
Dover Castle is situated in Kent and has been described as the Key to England due to its defensive significance throughout history. ...
The Belltower at University of California, Riverside, a center piece of the campus at UC Riverside. ...
First given earthworks during the American Civil War, the high ground west of Dover, now called Dover Western Heights, was properly fortified in 1804 when Lieutenant-Colonel William Twiss built the Citadel at the western end, North Centre Bastion to the north, and Drop Redoubt overlooking the town, with the...
Flag of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is a ceremonial official in the United Kingdom. ...
Roman Painted House
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Mansio The Roman Painted House is a Roman mansio, a hostel for government officials, which was built in c. 200. It was discovered in 1970 by the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit and, as it houses some of the finest example of Roman murals in Britain (over 400 sq. ft. of painted plaster, the most extensive ever found north of the Alps), it has the title of "Britain's Buried Pompeii". Image File history File links Doverromanpaintedhouse1. ...
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From the Latin word mansus the perfect passive participle of manere to remain or to stay. In the Roman Empire, a mansio was an official stopping place on a Roman road, or via, maintained by the central government for the use of officials and those on official business whilst travelling. ...
For other uses, see number 200. ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...
A mural is a painting on a wall, ceiling, or other large permanent surface. ...
Pompeii is a ruined Roman city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. ...
Above a lower dado, of red or green, visitors can still see an architectural scheme of many coloured panels framed by fluted columns. The columns sit on projecting bases above a stage, producing a clear 3-D effect. Parts of 28 panels survive, each with a motif relating to Bacchus, the Roman God of wine. Image File history File links Doverromanpaintedhouse2. ...
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The story of its discovery is most interesting. The town council had plans to build a car park on the site, when the KARU team, led by Brian Philp, began to find Roman remains. After a convoluted battle with the council and the builders, the excavation was allowed to continue and a museum built on the site while the carpark was built elsewhere. In fact, the museum was completed before the car park!
It went on over the decades to receive thousands of visitors, including the Queen Mother, who signed a specially-presented guestbook. Brian Philp continued to curate, giving talks to schoolchildren, tourists and academics alike. Other artefacts including an extremely important glass vessel are kept on the site, attracting academic study in recent years. These days, however, it is clear the museum has seen better days. The murals are still vivid and exciting yet the council has preferred to spend money on converting the White Cliffs Experience into the Dover Discovery Centre than keeping this amazingly important link to the past going. As Mr. Philp would say, "Countries that destroy their past deserve no future". The term Queen Mother is a title often held by the mother of a reigning monarch. ...
Due to the links with Bacchus and its convenient location near the ancient Roman Baths, the Roman Fort and the Roman Port, it has been suggested that the Painted House used to be a brothel; however, other academics believe the rooms are too small to have supported this line of work.
Other features of the Painted House include the Dover Gems, a medieval cut in the floor allowing the hypocaust system to be viewed and a medieval skeleton, nicknamed "Fred" by the volunteers that keep the museum running.
Saxon Shore Fort Its cover building, built by the rescue unit, also contains the remains of the Classis Britannica fort and of the Saxon Shore Fort, for which the mansio was demolished in 270. This demolition preserved the mansio and its wall-paintings better than usual, since the foots of the walls were contained in the fort's rampart. The Saxon Shore is the collective name given to a series of fortifications built along the south-east coast of what is now England, during the latter years of the Roman occupation of Britain. ...
Events Quintillus briefly holds power over the Roman Empire, and is succeeded by Aurelian Vandals and Sarmatians driven out of Roman territory Romans leave Utrecht after regular invasions of Germanic people. ...
Rampart may mean: A type of defensive wall consisting of a low earthen embankment topped by a parapet or palisade. ...
Other remains of the fort can also be seen in the basement and grounds of the Dover Discovery Centre or town library (the former White Cliffs Experience).
External links - Roman Painted House - Official Site
- Roman Painted House
- Council for Kentish Archaeology
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