Tag: Roman

• Where Romans wrote

  

  I mapped 203,466 Latin inscriptions through time. Under the Severans the empire carved 2.2 times as many a year as in AD 250 to 300; ages on tombstones were rounded to fives; and soldiers’ stated homes were a median 674 km from their stones.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  archaeology, Britain, Data bias, Europe, Languages, Military history, Roman, Romans

• The Roman Commuter Belt?

  

  Roman villas and today’s richest neighbourhoods both crowd into the lowland south-east. I set 617 villas against household income across England and Wales: the villa premium is real at first sight, and almost all geography.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  archaeology, Britain, Chance test, England, history, Persistence test, Poverty and wealth, Present day, Roman, Romans, Wales

• Still Standing: why do old buildings survive?

  

  I mapped all 6,837 buildings and structures in Wikidata from before AD 1100. 65% were built for worship, most still are, and the survivors are either indispensable or forgotten.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, buildings, Early medieval, Europe, Heritage, history, religion, Roman, Wikidata, World

• Where Was the Battle? The lost battlefields of early Britain

  

  I gathered 88 proposed sites for 18 lost battles of early Britain and tested each against what the texts actually say. Camlann’s theories are 679 km apart; Whalley’s fit inside 3.5 km.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  archaeology, Battles, Britain, Data bias, Early medieval, Roman, UK, war, Wikidata

• How Roman is your road?

  

  Nearly two thousand years on, 5% of Britain’s A-road network still runs on a Roman line. Which county is most Roman, which road wins, and where you can still see the old road in the ground.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Itiner-e, Persistence test, Place search, Present day, Roads, Roman, Roman roads, Romans, Satellite and lidar, UK