Our Roman family event was enjoyed by nearly 100 people at the beginning of the school holidays. Running as part of the Festival of British Archaeology visitors enjoyed the opportunity to find out more about the Roman period in Wiltshire. A soldier from the Ermine Street Guard told us all about life in the Roman army and impressed visitors with his weapons and armour. A household slave told tales of life in a villa working for wealthy owners. Local archaeologists brought along a range of roman finds from recent excavations for people to see and handle. The finds officer was kept busy identifying finds brought in by visitors and those cleaned by enthusiastic children in the finds washing activity.

 Finds Washing

Read on to discover our visitors' comments:

I have enjoyed  . . .myself. Very good! More please!

I have enjoyed . . . .cleaning the pottery talking to the servant and everything!

I have enjoyed . . . making mosaics on the wall and cleaning pottery

I was surprised by  . . .how heavy the roman coins were

I was surprised by  . . .  the weights that soldiers have to carry

Next time I would like . . . the roman here again because he is friendly

Next time I would like . . .more dressing up and more quizzes


Mosaic Wall Being Created