Nearby excavations reveal remains of an ancient defensive base, bones and iron weapons, which suggest bay as most likely landing spot for Roman fleet Julius Caesar’s invasion of Britain was ...

Archaeologists have identified Pegwell Bay as the place they believe the Romans landed Archaeologists believe they may have uncovered the first evidence of Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain in ...

The Roman general's ships arrived at Pegwell Bay on the Isle of Thanet, in Kent. Archaeologists never previously thought about it as a landing spot because, at the time, it was separated from the ...

Everyone knows Kent. White cliffs, Canterbury Cathedral, Margate, hops. But England’s oldest county, first recorded in the 4th century BC by the Greek voyager Pytheas, and the first port of call ...

Julius Caesar wrote about leading two Roman invasions of Britain, in 55 B.C. and 54 B.C., in his Commentaries on the Gallic War, which can still be read today. To the Romans of the first century B ...

Some of the Roman defenses at Pegwell Bay University of Leicester Between 58 and 50 B.C., Julius Caesar led his Roman legions through present-day France, Belgium and German lands west of the Rhine ...

The bay is big enough for the whole Roman army to have landed in the single day that Caesar describes. The 800 ships, even if they landed in waves, would still have needed a landing front 1-2 km wide.

The fort at Ebbsfleet was likely occupied by a garrison of Roman soldiers who kept watch over the more than 800 ships of the invasion fleet anchored in Pegwell Bay, while Julius Caesar led his ...

The first Roman invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar in 55BC is a ... Experts also discovered that nearby Pegwell Bay is one of the only bays in the vicinity which could have provided harbour for ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS say they have finally discovered the landing site of Julius Caesar’s 55BC invasion of Britain. Until now, mystery has surrounded the Roman army’s first encounter with anc… ...

A mysterious 12-sided Roman object that has baffled archaeologists has been discovered in Lincolnshire. ... They landed at a Pegwell Bay on the Isle of Thanet and were met by a force of Britons.