Housesteads Roman Fort, Northumberland 70s HMSO card

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• Picture / Image:  Housesteads Roman Fort, Northumberland - view of Hadrians Wall from Cuddy's Crags looking towards Housesteads.
• Publisher:  Dpt of the Environment c. 1970s
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Vercovicium, now known as Housesteads Roman Fort, was an auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall,^[1] in the Roman province of Britannia. Its ruins are located at Housesteads  in the civil parish of Bardon Mill in the English county of Northumberland, somewhat to the south of Broomlee Lough.

n the 2nd century AD, the garrison consisted of an unknown double-sized auxiliary infantry cohort and a detachment of legionaries from Legio II Augusta. In the 3rd century, it comprised cohors I Tungrorum, augmented by the numerus Hnaudifridi and the cuneus Frisiorum. The Tungrians were still there in the 4th century, according to the Notitia Dignitatum. By 409 AD the Romans had withdrawn.^[2]

The fort was built in stone around AD 124, soon after the construction of the Wall began in AD 122. Vercovicium was built overlying the original Broad Wall foundation and Turret 36b. The fort was repaired and rebuilt several times, its northern defences being particularly prone to collapse. A substantial civil settlement (vicus) existed to the south, outside the fort, and some of the stone foundations can still be seen, including "Murder House", where two skeletons were found beneath an apparently newly-laid floor when excavated.

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