· by forestcollectiv.bsky.social ·1d ago · view on bsky.app ↗

#RomanSiteSaturday and am just about recovered from an 8 day rampage this last week around Germany and the Benelux countries 🇩🇪🇳🇱🇱🇺🇧🇪 Most of all catching a whole tranche of Roman sites & while many of these will need more discussion think we need a 🧵👇

#romansitesaturday

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Mark Kirby · 1 · 23h ago

Fantastic thread. Thank you.

Forest Archaic Collective · 0 · 23h ago

it was a great week! many kid-in-a-candy-shop moments gotta hand it to the germans, they have some of the best reconstructed sites

Forest Archaic Collective · 3 · 1d ago

🧵/ While these sites wont be episodes for a little bit, we're currently heading through Southern Italy, & we have youtube's fingers round our throat, throttling our reach to death 😕 So if you could help us out with a watch >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xQB...

Forest Archaic Collective · 7 · 1d ago

🧵/1 Well after a start in Berlin and a rather long & uncomfortable flixtrain to Frankfurt, our first stop was at Saalburg, and not to turn this into a thread of threads, we were discussing this amazing fort on thursday >>> bsky.app/profile/fore... #RomanSiteSaturday

Forest Archaic Collective · 8 · 1d ago

🧵/2 a short trip from Frankfurt, and was very excited to nip around Mainz, with a lot of Roman easter eggs to catch including the theatre, Drususstein tower, Sanctuary of Isis & wall fragments #RomanSiteSaturday

Forest Archaic Collective · 5 · 1d ago

🧵/3 Next it was Cologne, and sadly the best of Roman Cologne: both the museum and the subterranean praetorium are both under construction for the next eternity but there's still plenty of fragments to catch #RomanSiteSaturday

Forest Archaic Collective · 4 · 1d ago

🧵/4 The following 2 days we were in the Netherlands & there were some cool forts to catch there, perhaps my favourite was this reconstructed watch tower outside of Utrecht #RomanSiteSaturday

Forest Archaic Collective · 6 · 1d ago

🧵/5 We were then staying in Luxembourg, mainly as a jumping off point for: Trier & however big the Porta Nigra looks ...its bigger 😵 (was fortunate that all of the scaffolding was only on the inverse side, that was close) #RomanSiteSaturday

Forest Archaic Collective · 5 · 1d ago

🧵/6 ...yes seeing Trier is an ambition i've had for years, almost certainly some of the most significant & vast Roman remains north of the alps, such as the Kaiserthermen #RomanSiteSaturday

Forest Archaic Collective · 3 · 23h ago

🧵/7 more of the incredible Roman legacy of Trier including the Constantine Basilica, Barbara Baths, Roman Bridge & amphitheatre #RomanSiteSaturday

Forest Archaic Collective · 3 · 23h ago

🧵/8 a little outside Trier, there are some incredibly exciting sites to visit such as the Villa Borg, had to track down some slightly obscure rural bus routes to get there, but a wonderful reconstruction of a villa to explore #RomanSiteSaturday

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