Roman Britain’s Pirate King
Mon 25 July, 2022 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm BST
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In 2010 a huge hoard of Roman coins was discovered near Frome, Somerset. More than 750 of the coins were minted during the reign of a little-known Roman ruler of Britain in the mid-3rd century AD: Marcus Aurelius Carausius.
In this talk, author and historian Simon Elliott describes the spectacular rise and bloody fall of this fascinating late-Roman figure.
