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Hadrian's Wall - Housesteads Fort Walkthrough - Medieval Engineers

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My latest build takes you up onto Hadrian's Wall itself. Housesteads Fort is one of the Wall forts, and one of the most famous Roman forts in the world. Its dramatic setting at the top of a long ridge makes it an imposing sight, even today.

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Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England. Located near the modern village of Bardon Mill, it guarded the Stanegate, the Roman road from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth.

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One of the legionary fortresses that was found in Britian.
One of the forts being the most long-lived.
Unlike forts legionary bases had bath houses provided inside of the defences .

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Location: Bardon Mill, Hexham which is close to Hadrian's Wall.
Type: Roman Auxiliary Fort Although first built by the Roman army. Before Hadrian's Wall, Vindolanda became an important construction and garrison base for the wall.
Layout: Outside the fort walls, space had be allocated for military structures - store houses, workshops temples an official guest house or mansio, cemetaries and the great military bath-house.
Dates: AD160-200. Vindolanda gets its first stone fort - garrison unknown - possibly North African
-AD200-212. A smaller base is built over the old town and the old fort site is covered with circular huts making a new native style town at Vindolanda
-AD274-280. Vindolanda is abandoned, the town is derelict and the fort granaries are torn down and made useless
-AD300-410. Vindolanda stone fort is rebuilt, smaller community moves inside the walls of the last fort, no longer uses the town outside the walls.
-One of the most important Roman military sites in the Empire.
-The documented writing tablets found are entirely from a military perspective (Some official, others from individual soldiers
-Vindolanda can be translated to mean 'white field or white moor'. - Roman forts was likely built upon a farmer's field.

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Binchester Roman fort

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Time Team S15-E02 Street of the Dead, Binchester, County

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The Binchester Roman fort, near Bishop Auckland, was one of the largest and longest permanently occupied Roman forts in the north of England. Binchester, or Vinovia as it was called, was a key staging post on Dere Street, the road to Hadrian's Wall and the north.

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Location: Northumberland, close to Hadrian's Wall.
Type: Coastal
Layout: Redesigned for large numbers of granaries. Stereotypical outline of a fort in the 3rd Century though it was extended and buildings were replaced or moved to house granaries.
Dates: 3rd Century - converted from a fort into a fortified stores compound (possibly to service frontier zones and Severan campaigns heading towards Scotland).
c.205-208 - 14 granaries built in northern part of the fort. Fort enlarged from 1.5ha (3.7 acres) to 2.0ha (4.9 acres). Over the next 20 years, came to 24 granaries in total.
c.300 - Granaries converted to barracks and the headquarters building was moved to the middle.
5th/6th Century - Complex series of refortifications.

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Map of Roman forts and major towns in Britain

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Map of Roman forts and major towns in Britain

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What impact did the Roman Army have on life in Britain?

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Summary of main features and examples

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Roman auxiliary forts - summary of main features and examples

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Summary of main features and examples

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Brief background details for the structure of the army in a military province