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Radio Shropshire,6 mins

How did the Romans survive winter?

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Wroxeter was one of the largest Roman settlements in the UK, but how did our southern European conquerors cope with the harsh British winter? Frances McIntosh, Curator of Roman Collections for English Heritage, explains how the Romans' ingenuity introduced the British Isles to ways of keeping warm that we'd never seen before.

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