DEVA VICTRIX, Chester's In situ Roman Remains, Part 1 

This was brilliant. I walk past all these sites regularly and wish more was done to uncover our hidden history!

Great video, there is so much to see in Chester! Would love to see Handsbridge and the Minerva Shine just across the bridge by the children's park... Chester is the best!

I will never get to see these remains in person, and I appreciate your narration and all the relevant info about these Roman places. Wonderful that they've been preserved.

Salve Deva Victrix.Good video,greetings from Rome

if you had turned left at the bottom of the roodee steps there are anchoring points in the walls. be interested to see your coverage of the watertower part of the walls. there are a few sections of building that have never been open to the public, but i understand some are now open. these formed the old port to the dee before the river moced further into wales. i grew up in chester but necer saw the 2 places within the coffee shops. thanks for sharing. i would love to see the hidden parts of shops on the rows and along st werburgh street abd northgate street. i was always fascinated by the somewhat hidden statue of dee bridge which is embedded into the embankment below the short section of walls the runs next to the castle. someone at the court told me theres a tunnel running from the courts to the river, passing under the castle. great video. look forwars to part 2.

There is one confirmed tunnel at Chester Castle which led from the Military Gaol between the Military Museum and Castle Street to the courts. This has been blocked-off. There are many rumours of further passages having one end at the castle but none have been confirmed. Some are said to be the work of "Richard the Engineer" who was one of Edward I's castle builders in North Wales and built a house for himself in Lower Bridge Street. Another existing "tunnel" is the sally port steps which lead through the Castle walls to an exit which can be seen today in the river-facing wall of the castle. These are possibly intended for provisions to be brought-up from the River Dee.

Absolutely loved this.... I was literally just in the Chester area for a few days and got a taste of the Roman Era.... I will be back in the next year or so and will use your video's as a guide....

That's given me something to think about Bob, I'm planning a visit to Chester soon. 👍

Thanks for that very informative look at the old Roman remains in Chester. Certainly a great deal of history there if you know where to look. Chester is a place I've wanted to visit for some time now.

Wonderful, la grandezza, la potenza, la magnificenza e la gloria di ROMA EST AETERNA, ROMA INVICTA ET LUX MUNDI 💪💯

Been down to Chester many times Masonic visits but never got the chance too explore Chester, came down in Aug 2022 for a short break but seems like I've missed all the hidden treasure, thanks for sharing.

Thank you for posting, always Find Chester amazing

Thank you for giving me another visit to Chester and showing all the things that I missed as a casual tourist in 2010. 🙂

Thank You for your work and time to do this video. Very very interesting 🫡

Very interesting, thank you.

Thanks very interesting.

Brilliant video. Only just come across your channel, will now watch the other episodes and more on your channel. It is my view, as a native of the City, that the Listed status of Dee House should be removed. It is totally dilapidated and was only a school in it’s previous history. Far better to demolish it and complete the excavation of the rest of the Amphitheater, which in my humble opinion is far more important to the history of Dewa.

The two 'holes' you found in the harbour wall by the Roodee, could these be drainage outfalls from the upper levels. One appears to be blocked in.

Magnificent!! Thank you! 🍻

Glad to see this up, I remember talking to you by the strong room while I was at work

This is wonderful, i am so looking forward to seeing more, thank you.

after a bit of searching, it seems the hole you found at the race course is called Roman Quay. it is thought to be for drainage.

Very interesting, great video 👍🏻👍🏻

Wow, love this so much! Thanks for sharing

Very enjoyable 👏

I’ve always thought that Chester doesn’t value its amazing Roman heritage. It should have a museum as good as those at Cirencester and Verulamium. Wake up Chester!

Thank you. Are you aware of the reconstructed Temple pf Mithras/Strongroom directly opposite the Cathedral? It's down one of the side streets adjacent to the old town hall. Thank you for sharing

Sehr interessant, danke!!

Fascinating, looking forward to lots more in future parts.

Having been to Pompeii last year and looking at the Google maps of it, I’m surprised that this looks similar 3:26

The holes in the harbour wall may have been drain exits?

The elliptical building in Fortress Dewa is a Temple of the Zodiac. Or more precisely, it was a Vesica Piscis shape and therefor a Temple of Pisces. (Note: the precessional Great Month of Pisces began in AD 10.) So where else in the Empire do we find precessional zodiacs? Ah yes, the Nazarene Jews venerated the zodiac in Judaea, which is why we get so many zodiacs in synagogues - like at Hamat Teverya and Huqoq in Galilee. And the Chester Temple of the Zodiac was designed in Egyptian royal cubits - the same measurement system used by the Jews, as it says in the Torah. Ok, so now we know what the Chester fortress really was for. It was a vast 1st century Guantanamo Bay, built by Emperor Vespasian to hold the dangerous rebel leaders from the Jewish Revolt. (It was built a year after the Revolt ended.). Rome wanted to keep these rebel leaders (the kings and princes of Adiabene-Edessa) as far from their power base in the East as possible. And they did not want to kill them, as happened with the British Druids, and spark a massive revolt like the Icenae Revolt, which happened only ten years previously. So they built Fortress Dewa; a Guantanamo Bay with a separate: accommodation block, exercise yard, bath house, and Temple of the Zodiac - to hold rebel leaders from the Jewish Revolt. Note: The elliptical Temple was destroyed in AD 110, after all the rebel leaders had died (of old age). But the eliptical Temple of the Zodiac was rebuilt in AD 222, after Emperor Elagabalus was deposed. Why? Because Elagabalus was a Galilean eunuch, and priest of the sacred Elagabal stone - and thus he was of exactly the same religion as the 1st century Galilean rebels of the Jewish Revolt. So the priests and administrators of Elagabalus’ regime (and Elagabalus himself?) were similarly exiled to Fortress Dewa. And to keep him and his religion happy, the Romans rebuilt the Temple of the Zodiac. And although it was a slightly different shape (fatter) it was again designed and built in Egypto-Israelite royal cubits. Ralph

I hope I don't sound picky There is no V Sound in Latin, its pronounced W So, its pronounced Dewa wictrix Great vid.. Thank you

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I know where there is another one on watergate Street.

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