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Reconstructing Roman Carlisle: Fort life on a shifting frontier
The Roman fort at Carlisle was founded decades before the construction of Hadrian’s Wall. How did the site’s use change as the frontier was fortified, and what can we learn about the lives of its inhabitants? John Zant reports.
Shortly after the 13th Pilgrimage to Hadrian’s Wall was completed in 2009, the results of the Carlisle Millennium Project – an important excavation undertaken in 1998-2001 by the former Carlisle Archaeological Unit (CAU) within the Roman fort – were published by Oxford Archaeology North. A decade on, just before the start of the 14th Pilgrimage, we have also published another highly significant Carlisle site, the northern Lanes, located within the large settlement that grew up outside the fort. This was excavated by CAU between 1978-1982. What have we learned about the site since then?
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Our story begins in the 1980s, when tree-ring dating of timbers in the south r
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