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Boxmoor
Boxmoor, or Boxmoor House Roman villa, is a scheduled Romano-British villa in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, occupied 1st-4th centuries AD, excavated by John Evans (1851-52) and David Neal (1966-70), abandoned mid-4th century.
Boxted Roman villa
Boxted Roman villa: minor Romano-British villa east of Boxted Farm, Lower Halstow, Kent, excavated 1882-1883 by George Payne; late 1st to late 2nd century AD, scheduled monument 1009022, near a contemporary Romano-Celtic temple.
Boynton Hall
Boynton Hall is a Grade I listed country house near Bridlington in Yorkshire, remodelled by Lord Burlington and John Carr, and the seat of the Strickland baronets until the early 20th century.
Brampton Old Church
Brampton Old Church is the surviving chancel of the medieval Church of St Martin in Brampton, Cumbria, England, standing on a Roman fort beside the Stanegate.
Brâncuși Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu
Brâncuși Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu (Calea Eroilor): 1937–1938 abstract war memorial by Constantin Brâncuși in Romania, with Table of Silence, Gate of the Kiss, and 29.33 m Endless Column; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2024.
Brandenburg Gate
Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor), Berlin's neoclassical former city gate built 1788-1791 by Carl Gotthard Langhans for Frederick William II, modeled on the Athenian Propylaea, crowned by Schadow's Quadriga, and a symbol of German division and reunification.
Brandon Camp
Brandon Camp, Adforton, Herefordshire: a large univallate Iron Age hillfort (scheduled monument 1011016) on the River Teme, re-used as a Neronian Roman military site, excavated by S.S. Frere 1981-85.
Brandsteig (Schenkenzell)
Brandsteig, locally called Schänzle, is a Black Forest pass and Roman archaeological site in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with a walled temple precinct beside the Roman road built around 74/75 AD.
Brankovina
Brankovina (Бранковина), village near Valjevo, Serbia, home of the Nenadović family and burial place of poet Desanka Maksimović; protected cultural-historical complex with the 1830 Church of the Holy Archangels and Serbia's first state school (1836).
Branodunum
Branodunum (Brancaster Roman Fort), Norfolk: a Roman Saxon Shore fort listed in the Notitia Dignitatum, built c. 225-250 AD, 2.6 ha, guarding the Wash, garrisoned by Gaulish infantry then Dalmatian cavalry.
Branogenium
Branogenium, also recorded as Bravonium, was a Roman roadside settlement that grew from a vicus near Jay Lane fort and lies beneath the village of Leintwardine, Herefordshire.
Branson Cross
Branson Cross is a 218-foot (66 m) plate-steel Christian cross monument in Walnut Shade, Missouri, near Branson on US-65. Built by Kerry Brown's nonprofit Images at the Cross (2018–2019), it is claimed the tallest cross in North America and fifth tallest worldwide, with FAA beacons.
Bratananium
Bratananium (Bratananio on the Tabula Peutingeriana) was a Roman vicus and mansio road station at Gauting, Upper Bavaria, at the junction of roads from Kempten and Augsburg toward Salzburg, settled from about 15 BC.
Bratina
Bratina (братина): a Russian communal drinking vessel first mentioned in the 16th century; also an open-air Cossack culture museum and festival in Krivosheino, Tomsk Oblast, and a media creativity festival in Sergiev Posad.
Bratton Castle
Bratton Castle (Bratton Camp) is a bivallate Iron Age hillfort of 9.3 hectares on Bratton Down, Wiltshire, enclosing a Neolithic long barrow, beside the Westbury White Horse and linked by tradition to Alfred's 878 victory at Ethandun.
Brauron/sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia
Brauron (Vravrona, Attica), sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia at the Erasinos river mouth, 38 km east of Athens; site of the Arkteia bear rite for girls aged 5-10, the Brauronia festival, an Acropolis branch sanctuary, and rich finds of mirrors, clothing dedications, and girl statuettes.
Brav(o)niacum
Brav(o)niacum, also Bravoniacum or Braboniaco, was a Roman cavalry fort and vicus at Kirkby Thore, Cumbria, on the Stainmore road and Maiden Way; Flavian origin, rebuilt in stone c. AD 125, occupied to the late 4th century.
Bray (site)
Bray (site), Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland (Bré): archaeological site, notably Roman-style extended inhumations found in 1835 with Trajan and Hadrian coins, monument WI004-004, earliest extended inhumations in Ireland.
Brazda lui Novac de Nord
Brazda lui Novac de Nord (Northern Furrow, Constantine's Wall, Troianul) is a late Roman earthen vallum and ditch, about 3 m high and 2 m ditch depth, running from Drobeta across Oltenia and Muntenia toward Pietroasele, dated to the 4th century under Constantine the Great.
Brazda lui Novac de Sud
Brazda lui Novac de Sud (Troianul) is a disputed Roman-era earthen rampart, about 170 km long, in southern Muntenia, Romania, running from Viespești to former lake Greaca; its dating (Augustus to 3rd century) and function remain debated.
Brazilian Park Washuzan Highland
Brazilian Park Washuzan Highland (ブラジリアンパーク 鷲羽山ハイランド) is a Brazil-themed amusement park opened in 1971 on Mount Washu in Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan, known for the 16-meter Sky Cycle, samba shows, and Seto Inland Sea views.
Breaks Interstate Park
Breaks Interstate Park, the Breaks, is a bi-state Kentucky–Virginia park established 1954, one of only two US interstate parks, centered on the five-mile Breaks Canyon of the Russell Fork, the Grand Canyon of the South.
Brean Down
Brean Down: limestone promontory in Somerset, 97 m high, 1.5 miles long, extending into the Bristol Channel; National Trust site with Neolithic to WWII scheduled remains, Iron Age hillfort, Roman temple, and Palmerston Fort.
Brecon Beacons
Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog) is a Welsh national park designated in 1957; on 17 April 2023 its authority adopted the Welsh name, meaning Peaks of Brychan's Kingdom, alongside a net-zero-by-2035 management plan.
Brecon Beacons National Park
Brecon Beacons National Park, also known as Bannau Brycheiniog or Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog, is a national park in South Wales designated in 1957 and covering about 520 square miles.
Breksi Cliff
Breksi Cliff (Tebing Breksi), a former stone quarry in Sambirejo, Sleman, Yogyakarta, turned geotourism site of volcanic tuff from the ancient Nglanggeran volcano, inaugurated May 30, 2015 by Sultan Hamengku Buwono X.
Bremenium
Bremenium (High Rochester) was a Roman auxiliary fort on Dere Street in Northumberland, about 24 miles north of Hadrian's Wall. Occupied from AD 78-85 to the mid-4th century, garrisoned by Cohors I Fida Vardullorum, destroyed mid-4th century.
Bremetennacum Veteranorum
Bremetennacum Veteranorum (Bremetenacum Veteranorum) was a Roman auxiliary cavalry fort and veteran settlement at Ribchester, Lancashire, founded about AD 72, garrisoned by Spanish Asturian and later Sarmatian cavalry, occupied into the late fourth century.
Bremia
Bremia (Llanio, Loventium) was a Roman auxiliary fort in the Teifi valley, Ceredigion, Wales, occupied c.75 AD to the mid-2nd century, garrisoned by Cohors II Asturum, on Sarn Helen near Dolaucothi; distinct from Bremenium.
Breviglieri
Breviglieri (Al Khadra, El Khadra), Libya: archaeological site near Tarhuna with a late antique gasr centenarium (I.R.T. 877, Latino-Libyan inscription) and a unique tri-apsidal paleochristian church with a Byzantine baptistery.