trading

Above Despite being a native settlement in the northern frontier zone, Faverdale contained a small Roman bathhouse. This reconstruction imagines business being conducted inside over a drink and some oysters. The design of the wall plaster has been based on some surviving fragments.

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Roman Faverdale: a frontier trading settlement

What impact did the Roman army have on the native population living in the military north? The recent publication of the report on a settlement at Faverdale, Darlington, by Jennifer Proctor provides some unexpected answers.