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Asking AI Bot Chat GPT about Recent Roman Realisations
The Pitfalls and Problems of Asking Questions To AI Chat GPT So it’s recently being speculated that the northern English city of Chester, Deva Victrix back in the days of Latin, legionaries and loincloths was planned to become the third capital of the far reaching and catastrophic to conquer to Roman province of Britannia. This…
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Prehistoric Rock Art Lost In A North Leeds Suburb
Find out all about the recently discovered ancient petroglyphs which have lain unnoticed, lost to time in a much frequented beauty spot which once claimed the accolade of being the highest point in Leeds. These mysterious cup marks are not unique to Yorkshire, but are an anomaly in this highly urbanised area of one of…
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The Demolition of Bradford’s Dark Castle of Days Gone By
Bradford, an impoverished Yorkshire former textile centre is not known for its deep-dated medieval heritage. The city now chosen as the 2025 European City of Culture is rumoured in some circles to have once possessed a stone-built Norman period fortified structure. In time this would be slighted and the reclaimed masonry would find its way…
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Singing For The Land
Mars Wars? A once mighty deity, perhaps now only remembered through a caramel layered confectionery bar. Our nearest planet, and fantasised future earth colony – if the Sci-Fi classic Total Recall is anything to go by. Whether the planet was named after the Roman deity or vice versa, either way they were both utterly synonymous…
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Hall Or Nothing?
Watch Long Demolished Alwoodley Old Hall Come Back To Life In A Full Colour Restoration! Once sited on Goodrick Lane in Alwoodley Ward, Leeds, this fine mullion windowed Manor House was built during the mid 17th century. Once sited on Goodrick Lane, this fine mullion windowed Manor House was built during the mid 17th century.…
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Roman Fort Sites of Leeds
If the words Roman and Leeds are somehow as yet unconnected in your mind, then it’s now time to make the join. York – of course…Eboracum, later Jorvik. Alborough – definitely…once an administrative centre on the road North…Isuruim Brigantum. But Leeds? Yes – the Northern Powerhouse lost most of its traces of it’s Roman past…
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Mirfield, West Yorkshire – Site of a Celtic Oppidum and Roman Amphitheatre?
Liberated from the archives of Dewsbury Library, Courtesy of the Mirfield History Society’s ‘Mrs Kemp’. Reference Number: 521936Hfs At the time of the Roman invasions of Britain the whole of this area (Yorkshire) was a part of the confederation of British tribes known as the Brigantes. The Gauls and Britons, unlike the Greeks and Romans, did…
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Her Story In Roman Britain
Natalie Haynes tells the stories of Claudia Severa and other Roman-British women, with guests Professor Llewelyn Morgan and archaeologist Dr Paul Roberts. In this broadcast the classicist and comedian examines the stories of Boudicca rebel Queen of the Iceni, Cartimandua the Brigantian Queen who left her husband for his armour bearer, Regina of Arbeia, now…
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King on the Lane
These display boards were finished and installed at the King on the Lane pub in Moor Allerton, Leeds the other day. Here they are reproduced so you can have a read yourself and discover lots of things you never knew about this part of North Leeds.
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Lost Roman Sites In North Leeds
More to Moortown Than Meets The Eye Battles such as this likely occurred in nearby streams circa 80 CE The Moor Allerton district of North Leeds is a suburban area built over Moorland during the mid 20th century. Three particular roads meet on an ancient boundary is now marked by a unassuming roundabout. Stonegate Road,…
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