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<p>[QUOTE="PaddyB, post: 2820469, member: 40017"]Living most of my life in the UK, I would have to take exception to </p><p><i>"there isn't a lot of Roman sites besides Bath"</i>! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Roman sites are all over Britain ranging from Forts and Villas to whole abandoned cities. (I would agree thay are not always well advertised here - there is so much Roman stuff around that the local tourist boards seem to ignore it.) As well as Caerleon in South Wales I would recommend Hadrian's wall in Northumbria and the Villa at Fishbourne in Sussex. Any town or city with Chester or Caster is based on a Roman fort and will have remains somewhere. When you next visit do a bit of Googling for the areas you will be in before you arrive. (The Roman stuff in London has been mostly built over I agree - until the late 20th century it was held in low regard unless it was in marble!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PaddyB, post: 2820469, member: 40017"]Living most of my life in the UK, I would have to take exception to [I]"there isn't a lot of Roman sites besides Bath"[/I]! :-) Roman sites are all over Britain ranging from Forts and Villas to whole abandoned cities. (I would agree thay are not always well advertised here - there is so much Roman stuff around that the local tourist boards seem to ignore it.) As well as Caerleon in South Wales I would recommend Hadrian's wall in Northumbria and the Villa at Fishbourne in Sussex. Any town or city with Chester or Caster is based on a Roman fort and will have remains somewhere. When you next visit do a bit of Googling for the areas you will be in before you arrive. (The Roman stuff in London has been mostly built over I agree - until the late 20th century it was held in low regard unless it was in marble!)[/QUOTE]
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