Course: Archaeology of Portus: Exploring the Lost Harbour of Ancient Rome

For this final activity we would like you to reflect on the information we have provided during the course about the Imperial Palace. You will write a short piece of …

I can’t believe it is week six already! Hopefully, by the end of this week you will be happy working as a member of the Portus Project team, having not …

Welcome back! This week we will be concentrating on the later years of Portus, and in particular the 5th to the 7th centuries AD. We will be studying the beautiful …

So, we are now ready to getting going on week four! Wondering about the background behind me in the video? Perhaps you can recognize it? It was the entrance to …

Terrestrial geophysics allows us to see beneath the soil, giving an insight into buried buildings and other archaeological and geological information. Methods covered here include Electrical Resistance Tomography, Magnetometry and …

Hello again, and welcome to week three. I hope you are now feeling at home at Portus? This week we’ll start looking under the soil, with a host of scientific …

This video introduces students from the Portus Field School in 2013 who contributed to this course; you will meet them again in later videos. Some of them will also be …

As you know the Roman Empire was its height during the reign of the emperor Trajan. He had just conquered Dacia and with the gold from the Dacian mines pouring …

Increasingly archaeological information is being shared openly and for free online. As this course has been created whilst the latest season of work on the Portus Project is still ongoing …

In this whistle-stop tour we have explored the Claudian harbour, and its place in the Roman world. We have thought about connections to other parts of the Empire and examined …

As you work through the material on this course you will find a number of activities and steps that we have labelled as [Extra] in their title. For example, the …

In this video I introduced some of the methodological issues posed by the very large scale of an archaeological site such as Portus. In particular we can start to think …

The Claudian basin was a massive artificial harbour that encompassed c. 200 hectares and was the core of the early port. It was probably completed by AD 46, the same …

This video introduced you to the history of research at this site. Like so many archaeological sites in Rome and its surrounding countryside, there is a very long history of …

So, that has given you my thoughts on how modern archaeology differs from antiquarianism. A lot of modern research can be described as “interdisciplinary” by which we mean that it …