Corbridge Roman Town
This was one of the hidden gems we found during our quick sojourn into Northumberland to see Hadrian's Wall. There is something wondrous about walking on a stone-paved road that Romans walked on two thousand years ago. The audio tour from the museum on-site is absolutely worth it, it can be hard to decipher the foundations and fragments of buildings on the site. It's a huge site - and we lucked out being the first people there -- the only people there for almost an hour.
one of the storehouses in the roman town of corbridge
Iron Age forward
The ruins here are of a fort and the large town that grew up around it, built around 84 CE. There is evidence that the site has been occupied since the Iron Age, and the first roman forts here were likely cavalry forts, built of wood. Stone wasn't used in the town until after the construction of Hadrian's wall - sometime around 140 CE. It ws occupied by the Romans for longer than any other place on the wall.
The major ruins here are of the stone garrison buildings, granaries, officer's housing, storing, and religious buildings. Two of the major buildings are the carefully ventilated granaries, storhouses for grain and other foodstuffs for the town. Scotland is a wet place, the designers of these buildings added an ingenious ventilated floor set on pillars to keep air flowing around the items stored here.
curb (kerb) along the main road
reconstructed columns along the road / drainage and alley entries