At Saturnalia a couple inadvertently make an offering at a long-lost sacred well, with horrifying consequences. Two archaeology students go in search of an unlucky altar on Hadrian's Wall. A historian uncovers evidence of medieval idolatry in a Suffolk village. An Oxford academic narrowly escapes disaster after attempting to read a curse tablet. The de-consecration of a church spells disaster for a village built on top of a Roman town. A criminal who illegally excavates Roman artefacts suffers supernatural retribution. A young woman dies in a reconstructed temple of Apollo. In these seven supernatural stories by historian F. K. Young the dark powers of Roman Britain, buried for nearly two thousand years, are waking up ...