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Well this is news to me! I suppose it has been discussed before?
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba25/BA25NEWS.HTML
I see our very own MB is the identifier!
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It would appear that the Romans had their entertainments at just about every corner of the Empire, indeed where we consider the helmets and face masks found at Trimontium along with also a horse chamfron they must have had their Hippica Gymnasia as well.
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I think the rebuilding of the Antonine wall a worthy project (plus supporting facilities) This is the clincher I believe!
No need to say it would not have been a viable endevour, when clearly the Romans were planning on it too!
I say lets go! Just imagine the tourist denarii it would bring in!!
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I have wanted to do that with Hadrians' Wall for a long time but no one is interested.
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I think the thought of all that work is what puts people off. These days there just isn't the work ethic to do something on that scale....
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Many thanks for posting this interesting article. Indeed I had hold a lecture about military amphitheaters for the 2007 RAT Conference and used as a reference for British amphitheaters the book "Roman Amphitheatres in England and Wales" but it does not list the one in Edinburgh. Maybe the new edition of this book should be called "Roman ATs in Great Britain" :lol:
Anyhow it does not surprise me much that they found one even at this remote spot at the Antonine Wall. They did have these wooden amphitheaters for entertainment of the troops at many forts (legionary and auxiliary) and the gladiator troupes there were most likely itinerant ones traveling through the provinces.
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It is an interesting development for sure medusa! Perhaps an excuse for your group to visit a Roamn event in Scotland!
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I find it most gratifying to have some one even from the EEC to refer to the name "Great Britain" once again, especially when in more recent times there has been political and Nationalistic tendencies not only to devide it but swollow it up into a more federal system "Thank you Medusa"
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I can't see a reason why it couldn't be one.
I have not seen every granary going, but the ones I have seen have all been (relatively)straight sided!
Get those Gladiatrix re-enactors going up here , I say!!!
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Mike. Great Britain is more than just a geographical term, and it rolls off the tongue very well indeed. Infact to anyone with any pride what ever it means "Land of Hope and Glory Mother of the Free"
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