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Helen Geake and Martyn Williams speak to archaeologist Richard Hingley. He's Emeritus Professor of Roman Archaeology at Durham and author of ‘Roman Britain in Twenty Towns: A Visitor's Guide’.The new book looks at looks at a world of power and wealth, trade and religion, slavery, colonialism and resistance, all through 20 specially-selected locations.

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Pauline

Hadrian’s Wall might be symbolic as well as defensive but when I was at college in Newcastle in the late 1960s there were discussions on it probably being most important for a tariff and tax collection point from merchants and traders passing through.

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Juliet B

As someone who also grew up in Bath I definitely learnt about Prince Bladud in primary school, in fact there were two pubs close to my school named after him (one is still going strong). I wonder if the lack of reaction to his name in Richard’s talk was due to the pronunciation of his name, we always called him BlayDed rather than Blad ud.

Jen

Lilli Haicken

Diversity in a Roman town in Britain might look like a few wealthy people, possibly one family or two in villas, then a rather mixed lot of artisans selling things or performing services, and then a bunch of the poor, possibly who've come in from the rural areas looking for work. Its not that different from a modern town, although today's poor tend to be from mixed backgrounds - both native born and immigrants working to do better.