https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers Case studies, images and useful links to share en-us 2016-10-04 07:39:43 UTC 2026-01-05 00:17:40 UTC hello@padlet.com vicki_bullock https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128410036 Brief background details for the structure of the army in a military province]]> 2016-10-05 08:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128410036 vicki_bullock https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128410184 Summary of main features and examples ]]> 2016-10-05 08:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128410184 vicki_bullock https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128410360 Roman auxiliary forts - summary of main features and examples]]> 2016-10-05 08:44:59 UTC https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128410360 vicki_bullock https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128410438 Summary of main features and examples]]> 2016-10-05 08:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128410438 vicki_bullock https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128410544 What impact did the Roman Army have on life in Britain?]]> 2016-10-05 08:46:11 UTC https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128410544 vicki_bullock https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128415421 2016-10-05 09:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128415421 https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128415872  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.

]]> 2016-10-05 09:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128415872 vicki_bullock https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128415992 Binchester Roman fort]]> 2016-10-05 09:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128415992 https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128416322 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.]]> 2016-10-05 09:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128416322 https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128416868 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 .]]> 2016-10-05 09:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128416868 vicki_bullock https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128417038 2016-10-05 09:20:23 UTC https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128417038 vicki_bullock https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128417747 2016-10-05 09:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128417747 vicki_bullock https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128418016 2016-10-05 09:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128418016 https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128554386 2016-10-05 16:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/vicki_bullock/Soldiers/wish/128554386