Answer: AD43

Aulus Plautius assembled an army of four legions, which, along with a number of auxiliary regiments, landed at Richborough in Kent in AD43. The British, under Togodumnus and Caratacus, were taken by surprise and defeated.

Answer: 80 Roman miles

The word mile originates from the Roman 'mille passus', which means 'thousand paces'. There are 5,000 Roman feet in a Roman mile.

Answer: Portchester Castle 

The Romans originally built a huge fort on the site, which is in a commanding position at the north end of Portsmouth Harbour, in the late 3rd century. A castle was built in one corner of the fort following the Norman Conquest. 

Answer: Corbridge Roman Town

Corbridge in Northumberland is on Hadrian's Wall. It was once a bustling town, where Romans would pick up provisions, and remained so until the end of Roman Britain in the 5th century.

Answer: Claudius

As part of the invasion, Claudius himself even turned up with a herd of war elephants. In total, it took around 30 years of fighting before the Romans took control of most of southern Britain. 

Answer: 14

The wall extended along the northern frontier of the Roman Empire, from Wallsend on the east coast of Britain to Bowness-on-Solway on the west coast. Forts were built on the wall approximately every seven miles. There were also smaller milecastles every mile, with two towers between each, creating observation points every third of a mile.

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Lullingstone Roman Villa

Cirencester Amphitheatre

Chesters Roman Fort and Museum

Pevensey Castle

Answer: Julius Caesar

Britain was an unknown land across the sea when Caesar invaded the south of England as part of the Gallic Wars (58-50BC). Caesar's army defeated British tribes but then left to fight elsewhere

Answer: Nerva (reigned 96-98AD), Trajan (98-117AD), Hadrian (117-138AD), Antoninus Pius (138-161AD), Marcus Aurelius (161-180AD)

During the almost 300-year reign of the Five Good Emperors, the Roman Empire expanded significantly and covered northern Britain to Dacia (now part of Romania), Arabia and Mesopotamia.

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Aquae Sulis: Bath

Camulodunum: Colchester

Ratae Corieltauvorum: Leicester

Viriconium: Wroxeter

Answer: The A5

Watling Street ran from Dover to London and then on to Wroxeter via St Albans. The name originated from Anglo-Saxon settlers, who called Verulamium (a town near St Albans that was deserted in the late 5th century) by the name of Wætlingaceaster.

Answer: John Clayton (1792-1890)

John Clayton (1792-1890) was the town clerk of Newcastle upon Tyne, an antiquarian and a lawyer. By the time he died, he owned five forts along Hadrian's Wall, along with most of the wall within this 20-mile stretch. He stopped quarrying near the wall, prevented the use of Roman stone for new buildings, and moved buildings away from the archaeological work that he undertook.

Answer: 1964

The Corbridge Hoard is one of the most influential Roman 'time capsules' ever discovered in the area around Hadrian's Wall. The objects, which date from between AD122 and 138, include the contents of a Roman workshop and numerous items belonging to a soldier - armour, tools, weaponry, wax writing tablets and papyrus (used for writing and painting on, and for making rope).

Answer: Boudicca, queen of the Iceni of East Anglia

Boudicca's fighters defeated the Roman ninth legion and destroyed the Roman capital of Britain, which was then at Colchester. They also destroyed London and Verulamium (St Albans). Boudicca was finally defeated by a Roman army led by Paulinus, and is thought to have poisoned herself so that she wasn't captured.

Answer: Hardknott Roman Fort

Hardknott Roman Fort in Cumbria was established during the reign of Hadrian (AD 117-38). After it was abandoned in the early 3rd century, the fort was used as a shelter by travellers and passing patrols.

Answer: Saxon Shore forts

The first of these forts to be built, in the early 3rd century (including Reculver in Kent), were little different from the Hadrian's Wall forts. Later forts, built between about AD275 and 300, have massive mortared walls and projecting towers. There are immense surviving remains at Pevensey in Sussex, Portchester in Hampshire, and Richborough in Kent.

Answer: Segmented armour

The discovery of the Corbridge Hoard meant that archaeologists finally had large enough pieces of Roman armour to reconstruct how the suits were worn. Among the remains of armour was evidence of leather straps and hoops, which would have allowed the segments to move with the body.

Answer: The aureus

The aureus was first named nummus aureus, which means 'gold money', and was equal to 25 silver denarii. A denarius was equal to 10 bronze asses.

Answer: Because of his hair

Most scholars believe that the name derives from the Latin expression 'caesar', meaning hairy. However, it is unclear whether it originally had straightforward or ironic connotations.

Answer: AD410

By the early 5th century, the Roman Empire was in turmoil. Roman citizens in Britain appealed to the emperor, Honorius, for help when the country was faced with invasion by Picts and Saxons. But Honorius needed the Roman legions in Britain to defend other parts of the Empire that were under attack from barbarian tribes. He drafted a letter to the people of Britain telling them they must 'look to their own defences', thus ending Rome's official ties with Britain.