Roman camp at Hedemünden near Göttingen.

[Nerva]

Ah, we live in hope that one day evidence will be found of Roman settlement in Ireland. There have been many finds of coins, pottery and even personal artifacts such as fibula, but not of any structures or encampments. Over the past number of decades there have been a few sensational reports of roman forts being found, most notably that of the Irish times in 1996 claiming that a previously know site had now been declared as Roman in nature.

All this came to nothing as the evidence was tenuous as best. Recent evidence suggests the site is Celtic...or is it? There are quite a number of 'academics'(?) who claim it's all a conspiracy, that there have been finds of Roman sites but they have been covered up by mainstream Irish historians because it would 'spoil' the accepted history of Ireland

Whatever the case may be, we still await 'positive' proof of a Roman presence here