The final season of a four-year excavation exploring the civilian settlement outside Birdoswald Roman fort concluded this summer. Carly Hilts visited the project at its outset, and again in 2023; this July she returned to Hadrian’s Wall to hear the latest thinking from Tony Wilmott and Ian Haynes.
At over 500 pages, David Mason’s volume on Roman activity in County Durham is the first comprehensive analysis of Roman military and civilian activity for this part of north-east England; many of the sites have not previously been examined in…
What is the latest thinking on the forts that lay towards the eastern extremity of Hadrian’s Wall? Paul Bidwell and Nick Hodgson report.
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.