Known as ‘Banna’ to the soldiers who garrisoned it almost 2,000 years ago, Birdoswald Roman fort has long been a key focus for Hadrian’s Wall research. In fact, it is one of the most-extensively excavated forts on the line of the Wall. The area immediately outside its fortifications has seen virtually no digging, however, although extensive geophysical surveys by Alan Biggins and David Taylor in the 1990s revealed an impressive extra-mural settlement that, at its peak, was two-to-three times the size of the fort itself.
Now a new project headed by Newcastle University and Historic England (facilitated by English Heritage, who care for the site) has set out to learn more about this e
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