From an archaeologist this is an amazing video

I always find it fascinating how people chose the places that became centers of commerce in the ancient world. Silchester obiviously had certain things going for it since Romans chose to make it such a important waypoint.

Really nice to watch and learn more about Deva. Thank u mate

Awesome!Congrats, really enjoyable and more because I had the privilege to live in Deva and see some points of your film.

very interesting thanks, inspired to visit now

It looks like a good reconstruction project for living history tourism and TV/movie location ......Uhm ?

Love your insight into history you come over full of enthusiasm

Very interesting to actually see the place. Ive watched, replied to many videos about Boudiccan / iceni uprising. I've read quite a bit, including archaeological details. ..But ive never been to the remains of the post-uprising Roman city. So watching your video is the next best thing. I really liked the way you incorporated a scale plan showing the wall & exterior boundary ditches along with the interior grid system , roads & insulae. Along with excellent footage boundary to boundary. I knew it wasn't a large city but i was surprised to see how small it was. I was surprised to see the turret was solid stone, i expected the other side to have remains of a doorway kinda like a medieval castle. I guess there would've been a wooden structure a watchtower at the top. 👍

Fabulous. Loved the walk around to a pace I will probably never get to. Felt like I was there too. Subscribed, so you have a lot to live up to ;)

Hi Bob, Very impressive, so much to see there, not least the ramparts and earthworks which you quick rightly point out are just as important. Some great drone clips really give you a great idea of the size of the place. Two things for your Christmas present list: A machete, and some sting nettle cream Great video well done. All the best!!

I believe she was invented by the Romani.

When a modern town has been built over a former Roman settlement, you don't think anything about it. Only when you come across a Roman road to nowhere, and the remains of the settlement in the wilderness, does it seem interesting! You might make a series of videos about the Roman forts of the Saxon Shore, and compare them to each other. Roman mortar lasts such a long time because it is made from montmorillonite and ash. This type of mortar is not used in the present day because it takes a very long time to set. But that didn't matter to the Romans, who could keep men on site while the mortar dried. The Roman forts notably at Pevensey, have layers of tiles, as a course of stonework had to be left to dry until the next course of stonework could be added. Thanks for uploading.

the Iceni were in Suffolk as well as Norfolk meny coins found in suffolk

Great video. Very much looking forward to the next! Subbed!

Opened to the public in 1993? It was never closed. There used to be cows grazing within the site but it was accessible. The field outside the south rampart used to be ploughed, and heavily. Lots of bits of Samian ware, glass, parts of amphora, mortaria, tiles, oyster shells and bones would be ploughed up and you could see it all round the edges of the field.

I enjoyed that very much. 😊 Subbed

Is it mere coincidence that, in the aerial map 21:34 from the north west corner where the road is now, lines up with what looks like a diagonal road across the site, which also lines up with what looks like a path from the south west corner, again, to another road?

Thank you for an exellent film. My first thought is that it could have been an open prison with a plentiful supply of slave labour to hand.

Concrete in close association with the steel prevents or reduces the rate of rusting, so steel was often coated with it in the interior of ships.

Beautifully shot with very high quality explanatory graphics and excellent narrative as always. Many thanks

Great video!

What a fantastic informative video. If only the site could talk. What could it tell us.

What an interesting video, many thanks. Incredible how much remains after 2000 years, it's every bit as interesting as Hadrian's Wall.

I also live there.....beautiful spot , great to be there when on your own with time to reflect!

“Though never excavated the amphitheatre area has not been confirmed”. Hardly a clever conclusion, that!

Cardiff was a Roman Fort/town. Excavations have shown there to be at least 4 Roman Forts there. I know Roman stone work when I see it.

Yet another splendid film!

There is a round barrow near me known locally as Boadicea's grave (video on my channel), no evidence this is actually her grave but as they say 'no smoke without fire'.

Cardiff has a walkway on it,

Great tour friend. Thank you for the time you spend. Giving you a new follower from Texas.

What was the population at the time of Boudicca?

Amazing the place is preserved from development.

I used to live half a mile from Venta Icenorum and often wandered round the walls. A lovely quiet place.

Was the area waterlogged in Roman times? When did Norfolk become the dry farmland we know today?

There is a small ramparted fort in Epping Forest claimed to be the site of the last stand of the Iceni princes

Fascinating, and a great video. Thank you.

The wall was not built on top of the rampart, but in front of it & rising higher. The rampart thus became the back support of the wall. The rampart was earlier, & was cut away at the front for the stone wall to be set into the front of it. The wall would have turned in at the gates to support the rampart where it was open. The line of the streets within the city are clear, especially in the aerial shots. Much of the stonework is left buried by the slumped earthworks to protect it from further erosion. Originally there would have been no slope or embankment outside in front of the wall, but the wall would have risen vertically from the flat berm between the ditch & wall. The apparent rampart in front of the wall is just earthwork slump, not a deliberate defensive feature. These old Roman sites were very often given to the Church by Anglo-Saxon Kings, as they were still considered 'state property'. It is also likely that, as at Calleva, the existing church sits on an older temple site, or within a 'sacred' region of the former Roman City. These Roman defensive enclosures where also used as Royal sites, some designated as 'Villa Regias', with Royal lodgings & often the production of official specialist items of metalwork etc, such as weapons & coins. They were rarely fully occupied until much later, but considered reserved for special uses. It was only really because of the 'viking' wars that such places were sometimes reoccupied & manned fully, as at London under King Alfred. Others became the sites of later castles, because of the ready made defences, if the site was strategic at the time. Others, such as this Venta Icenorum, were never re-occupied much, because other sites took over their local role, in this case Norwich itself, because it was better placed on the river, just as Reading replaced Calleva.

A lovely persmbulation :)

Great video 👍🏻 although I shall not stop calling the lady Boadicea.

So well done - not least the excellent diagrams.

Thank you for the History of that place.👍👍

Another excellent video. I know Silchester well and have visited Wroxeter but I’ll have to pay a visit to this one too now.

Blisteringly good

Beautiful documentary 👌😃

Great video. Growing up in Penyffordd from the age of 7 in 1981 until I left home there were lots of memories here. Remember my mum taking us for a picnic on a warm summer day and sitting in the shade under the old railway bridge under Lower Mountain Road. Must've been early 80s, the bridge was definitely not filled in and I vividly remember being taken by an old signal that was still there. I remember the old station being a wool shop in those days. Also a couple of mates had the old line at the bottom of their back gardens in Penyffordd which I always thought was very exciting!

Really interesting and very well researched. I grew up in Chester and lived there until my 30's and didn't know any of this detail. Many thanks for posting.

I'd never heard of this line but I know about it, now. Lovely video, thanks for taking the time and trouble to make it.