Save the Date: on the 2 of April Professor Koen Ottenheym wil present his new publication: The Limes as Legend, with further controbution form Dr. Saskia Stevens (University Utrecht), Professor David Rijsers (University of Groningen) and Merlijn Hurx (KU Leuven).

On Tuesday 13 January, Wouter Vos, Jeroen Oosterbaan, Lianne te Winkel, Geert Roovers and Saskia Stevens gathered in Deventer with dozens of archaeology students from Saxion to celebrate the students’ involvement in the C-Limes minor. The meeting focused on their important contribution to this project. Over the course of three years, 70 students worked on…

The symposium takes place on May 15th 2025 in Utrecht, and is organised as part of the NWO Constructing the Limes project and co-funded by the Archon research school.

This year, the Constructing the Limes team participated in the Reuvensdagen, the annual national archaeology conference, this year held at Breda. It was a great way for various team members to present their own research within the project to the wider (commercial) archaeological field and connect with Dutch archaeologists. Four of our PhD students, Arjan de Ruiter,…

On September 21, Constructing the Limes organized a meeting with the project’s various stakeholders. The meeting was hosted by the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) in Leiden and the goal was to reconnect with the partners and share ideas about our current and future collaboration. The program included presentations about the work packages and a…

On 30 June Prof. Kristian Kristiansen (University of Gothenburg) will give a lecture titled: “Towards a new European prehistory: genes, archaeology and language” at Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, Utrecht. The lecture will be live-streamed and takes place between 15.00-17.00 (CET). Before the lecture, Saskia Stevens will give an update on the project and our junior researchers will briefly introduce their research. You can find more info…

On Saturday 21 May we are organising our first PAN-event with Landschap Erfgoed Utrecht. This event is for voluntary archaeologist and metaldetector seekers from the province of Utrecht. On this day everyone can bring their finds (specifically from Roman times) and we will enter them in the national database of finds PAN (Portable Antiquities of…

On Thursday March 24, New Discoveries Seminar, Erfgoed en Publieksgeschiedenis Lab and Constructing the Limes will host a lecture given by archaeologist and heritage scholar Suzie Thomas titled Participatory Heritage Approaches at Contested Sites of Conflict: Creating Space for Discussion. More information about the lecture can be found on the poster below.

Saskia Stevens and Gertjan Plets presented Constructing the Limes on January 22 2021 at the annual Romeinendag, organised by RomeinenNU and Romeinse Limes Nederland. This Romeinendag was broadcasted via a livestream. There were also contributions from Annet Nieuwhof and Stijn Heeren about Northern Netherlands in the Roman era, Wouter Vos gave an update on the…