Ancient place · Roman
Micheldever Wood
Hampshire
Beneath a beech wood William Cobbett once called one of England's finest oak stands, three millennia of land use survive intact: Bronze Age (roughl…
- Near Winchester
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Middleham Market Cross
North Yorkshire
Middleham Market Cross preserves a medieval market landmark whose worn steps and repeatedly changed summit trace centuries of civic use and repair.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 29
Northumberland
Tower Tye, reduced to an earth platform outlined by robber trenches: while eleven courses of Roman masonry still stand in its turret at Black Carts.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 30
Northumberland
At Limestone Corner, where Turret 30A sits forty metres from where measuring west would put it: evidence the turrets were set out first.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 31
Northumberland
Beside the Carrawburgh car park, its north wall under the modern road; only the west wall has ever been found, and that was robbed out.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 32
Northumberland
What survives at Carraw is the shape of a building rather than the building: shallow trenches left by stone robbers, a low platform between them, a…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 33
Northumberland
Shield on the Wall is one of the few posts on this stretch where Roman stone is still uncovered: part of the north gate and wall, standing 1.2 metr…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 34
Northumberland
Grindon itself has gone from view entirely, but the tower a short way west survives well enough to show a doorway with its threshold stone still in…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 35
Northumberland
Sewingshields is one of the few posts on this frontier whose interior has been dug in depth: four successive phases of Roman building, with two med…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 36
Northumberland
Milecastle 36 shows how nineteenth-century stone robbery erased a Roman frontier post, leaving its excavated gateway sequence recoverable only thro…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 37
Northumberland
This is one of the most complete of the small posts on the frontier: walls 2.2 metres high inside, a barrack block still standing a metre, and a no…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 38
Northumberland
The building inscription from Hotbank names the emperor Hadrian and Aulus Platorius Nepos together, tying this stretch of frontier to the governor…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 39
Northumberland
Castle Nick is among the best preserved of the small frontier posts: an oven in one corner, a sunken-floored room in another, and an eighteenth-cen…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 40
Northumberland
Winshields is a low mound of turf-covered rubble today, but when it was opened in 1908 the south wall was still standing ten courses high beneath it.
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 41
Northumberland
A cottage built from this post's own Roman stone once stood on top of it, and the cottage has gone too.
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 42
Northumberland
Put on a steep slope below Cawfield Crags because the measurement said so: the clearest demonstration that the Wall was laid out by the rule, not t…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 43
Northumberland
Demolished by the Roman army itself: the fort of Aesica was built directly over it within about a decade.
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 44
Northumberland
Milecastle 44 turns a few facing stones, a turf bank and a surviving road agger into evidence for the Wall’s supply system.
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 46
Northumberland
A milecastle with no visible remains, its site a slight turf platform just west of the broad ditch and mounds behind the Wall.
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 47
Northumberland
Milecastle 47 shows how nineteenth-century explosive quarrying reduced a Roman garrison post to a slight pasture platform, leaving its vanished fab…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 48
Cumbria
Its north-east corner still holds a flight of Roman stone steps, rare enough on Hadrian's Wall to let archaeologists calculate the actual height th…
- Near Gilsland
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 49
Cumbria
Excavation here found an earlier turf-and-timber milecastle buried beneath the stone one: a rare surviving trace of Hadrian's Wall's first, tempora…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 50
Cumbria
A stone milecastle that replaced an earlier turf-and-timber fort on a different footprint entirely: the only Turf Wall milecastle along the whole f…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 50TW
Cumbria
Milecastle 50TW is the only turf-wall milecastle whose stone-built replacement was raised on an entirely different site, leaving its own buried foo…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 51
Cumbria
A milecastle built twice: first in turf and timber, then rebuilt in stone with barracks for a garrison detachment: marking the exact seam where Had…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 52
Cumbria
Nothing of the milecastle itself survives above ground, yet the ground around it has given up altars to a local war god and a fragment naming Hadri…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 53
Cumbria
The milecastle itself has vanished without trace, yet its paired turrets and, 80 metres away, one of the tallest surviving stretches of Hadrian's W…
- Near Carlisle
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 54
Cumbria
Excavation found a stone milecastle built over an earlier turf-and-timber one, and a nearby stone records tribesmen rebuilding the Wall as late as…
- Near Carlisle
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 55
Cumbria
A gate in the Roman frontier system has vanished into a pasture field, leaving only a slight rise in a hedgeline to mark where soldiers once contro…
- Near Carlisle
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 56
Cumbria
The milecastle itself has vanished entirely under a Cumbrian village, yet its two flanking watchtowers still leave traces in a nearby wood and rive…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 58
Cumbria
A stone found among its ruins in 1853 named, in Latin, the exact Roman legion that built it: one of the few milecastles on Hadrian's Wall whose bui…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 59
Cumbria
Nothing rises above the pasture here, yet a 1981 geophysical survey confirmed the milecastle's south wall still lies intact underground, and two Ro…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 60
Cumbria
Part of a stretch of Hadrian's Wall whose turrets went unsought until 1961: a reminder that even a famous Roman frontier still hides points on the…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 61
Cumbria
No wall or foundation has ever been uncovered here: the only evidence for this Roman garrison post is a patch of ground that behaved strangely unde…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 62
Cumbria
Nothing rises above the field today, yet nine test pits dug in 1999 found the original turf-and-timber milecastle surviving intact beneath its ston…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 63
Cumbria
The clearest fact recorded about Milecastle 63 is not what survives here but how its location keeps being revised: a 1980 survey and a 2000 excavat…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 65
Cumbria
No stonework rises above the turf here, yet buried foundations and cobbled flooring confirmed in 1976 still anchor this stretch of Hadrian's Wall t…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 66
Cumbria
The stones of its vanished bridge lie recovered from the riverbed, nearly a hundred blocks dredged from the Eden and now resting in a Carlisle park…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 67
Cumbria
No masonry has ever been found at Milecastle 67: its position rests entirely on mathematical inference from the spacing of Hadrian's Wall's numbere…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 68
Cumbria
No stone of it has ever been found, yet its position is known almost to the metre: a milecastle located entirely by mathematics, not masonry.
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 69
Cumbria
One of the Hadrian's Wall milecastles that has never been pinned down on the ground: stones once mistaken for its remains turned out to belong to a…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 70
Cumbria
A frontier post so thoroughly stripped that its very footprint has eluded a modern geophysical survey, yet the ground around it has still given up…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 71
Cumbria
Excavation here traced the milecastle's east wall to a possible interior building, one of the few points along this stretch of Hadrian's Wall where…
- Near Gilsland
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 72
Cumbria
Nothing of Milecastle 72 shows above the turf today, yet three separate digs pieced together a full building sequence from turf fort to stone, down…
- Near Gilsland
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 73
Cumbria
Nothing shows above the pasture today, yet a geophysical survey found an entire cluster of enclosures and a road pressed into the ground beside the…
- Near Gilsland
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 74
Cumbria
It stands in Burgh Marsh, a stretch of the Solway where no remains of Hadrian's Wall are known at all: so the milecastle is placed by measuring bac…
- Near Gilsland
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 75
Cumbria
A gatehouse the Roman army certainly built and certainly manned, yet one that has left no trace at all: its site reconstructed only by counting mil…
- Near Gilsland
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 76
Cumbria
Its exact footprint has never been pinned down: a faint platform near Drumburgh may or may not be the milecastle at all, making this one of the Wal…
- Near Brampton
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 77
Cumbria
One of the mile-spaced fortlets that studded Hadrian's Wall, yet unlike many neighbouring stations its exact footprint has never been pinned down o…
- Near Brampton
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 78
Cumbria
Nothing stands above ground here, yet two seasons of excavation, 66 years apart, recovered the exact footprint of a Roman garrison post down to a b…
- Near Brampton
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 79
Cumbria
Excavated twice fifty years apart, this milecastle shows its own Roman rebuilding in section: a turf-and-timber fort raised on an artificial flood…
- Near Brampton
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 80
Cumbria
Its exact site was never found - swallowed, most likely, by the very Roman fort that replaced it, with the sea perhaps finishing the job.
- Near Brampton
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 1
Cumbria
First in the chain of milefortlets extending Hadrian's Wall's frontier along the Solway coast, its buried remains show three separate rebuildings d…
- Near Bowness-on-Solway
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 10
Cumbria
Its exact location has never been confirmed by excavation: a Roman site inferred entirely from measurement, a phantom fort known only through the g…
- Near Maryport
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 11
Cumbria
A Roman coastal defence whose exact position has never been pinned down: only calculated from the towers and ditches that survive around it.
- Near Maryport
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 12
Cumbria
One link in a chain of small coastal forts that carried Hadrian's Wall's defences off the end of the Wall itself and down the Cumbrian shore.
- Near Silloth
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 13
Cumbria
The fortlet itself has never been found: a 1994 survey traced only a possible ditch, while its two flanking towers yielded a Hadrianic coin and Rom…
- Near Maryport
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 14
Cumbria
No trace of it survives above ground at all: its very existence is known only because it fits the mathematical rhythm of Rome's coastal defence cha…
- Near Maryport
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 15
Cumbria
One of a chain of Roman coastal watch-posts continuing Hadrian's Wall westward, entirely lost to erosion by 1980 and known now chiefly through its…
- Near Maryport
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 16
Cumbria
A missing link in Hadrian's frontier system: proof that Rome's coastal defences ran on past the Wall itself, screening the Cumbrian shore with fort…
- Near Maryport
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 17
Cumbria
A vanished Roman coastal post recovered only from the air after being written off as lost to the sea, part of the chain that carried Hadrian's Wall…
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 2
Cumbria
No one has ever found it: its position is only a calculated estimate between two neighbouring forts, making it one of the Cumbrian coast's true gho…
- Near $2
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 20
Cumbria
A timber fortlet on the Cumbrian coast that carried Hadrian's Wall's defensive system beyond the Wall itself, guarding a shoreline the Wall never r…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 21
Cumbria
Milefortlet 21 matters because full excavation revealed an inhabited coastal outpost: buildings, ovens and possessions: not merely the footprint of…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 22
Cumbria
A Roman coastal fort now lies beneath a golf green, its ditch and gravel entrance road recovered only through 20th-century excavation.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 23
Cumbria
No wall or ditch survives above ground, yet aerial photography and geophysics have pinned this fortlet's exact outline into the Cumbrian coast's Ro…
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 25
Cumbria
Nothing survives above ground in this Maryport industrial estate, yet its flanking towers gave up a prehistoric (before written records reached Bri…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milefortlet 3
Cumbria
A Roman coastal watch-post so thoroughly ploughed away that only an aerial photograph proves it was ever there: the Cumbrian coast defences reduced…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 0
Tyne and Wear
It may never have been built. Peter Hill proposed it; no trace of it has ever been found.
- Near Wallsend
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 1
Tyne and Wear
Its remains lie under the recreation ground at Miller's Dene. Early excavators dug Turret 0B and thought they had found this instead.
- Near Wallsend
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 10
Tyne and Wear
Part of the north gateway survives in the front garden of Dene House: twelve foundation slabs, three blocks, one marked with an asterisk and two wi…
- Near Throckley
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 11
Tyne and Wear
Its measured position is the middle of the old village of Throckley Bank Top, underneath the Working Men's Club.
- Near Throckley
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 12
Northumberland
Milecastle 12 preserves an archaeological story beneath modern Heddon-on-the-Wall, where inscriptions, coin hoards, and associated turrets reveal a…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 13
Northumberland
Milecastle 13 preserves a low Hadrian’s Wall platform whose documented gateway, coin hoard, and turret system illuminate a small frontier post now…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 14
Northumberland
Milecastle 14 preserves a low Hadrian’s Wall platform whose short-axis (a milecastle whose long side runs with the Wall rather than across it) plan…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 15
Northumberland
Milecastle 15 preserves a bold but unexcavated Hadrian’s Wall platform whose robber trenches and disputed turret evidence show how much of the fron…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 16
Northumberland
Milecastle 16 preserves a slight Harlow Hill platform where the Wall itself was removed for the Military Road, while its associated turrets survive…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 17
Northumberland
Milecastle 17 is a deeply buried Hadrian’s Wall post whose changing masonry nearby may mark a legionary construction boundary, while later occupati…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 18
Northumberland
Milecastle 18 is Hadrian’s Wall’s only long-axis (a milecastle whose long side runs across the Wall rather than with it), Type I gateway (one of th…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 19
Northumberland
Milecastle 19 is one of Hadrian’s Wall’s most informative small posts, where a rare Mother Goddess dedication and Vardulian unit reveal the religio…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 2
Tyne and Wear
Built over. Its probable position is at or near the junction of the A187 Fossway and Tunstall Avenue.
- Near Wallsend
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 20
Northumberland
Milecastle 20 (Halton Shields) shows how a Roman frontier installation can remain historically important even when modern buildings and gardens cov…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 21
Northumberland
Milecastle 21 (Down Hill) illustrates the limits as well as the reach of archaeological reconstruction on Hadrian’s Wall. Its location is known by…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 22
Northumberland
A low turf-covered platform beside the Portgate roundabout preserves a long-axis (a milecastle whose long side runs across the Wall rather than wit…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 23
Northumberland
Milecastle 23 survives as a grass-covered platform and shallow ditch, preserving evidence for a long-axis (a milecastle whose long side runs across…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 24
Northumberland
Milecastle 24 records a long-axis (a milecastle whose long side runs across the Wall rather than with it) frontier post whose low bank, spoil heaps…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 25
Northumberland
Milecastle 25 preserves a low platform and possible ditch beside the B6318, while the excavated turret pair reveals varied construction, occupation…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 26
Northumberland
Milecastle 26 connects a buried long-axis (a milecastle whose long side runs across the Wall rather than with it) milecastle with the surviving Pla…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 27
Northumberland
Milecastle 27 retains a slight platform in pasture and preserves a close relationship with Chesters Roman Fort, where one associated turret was dis…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 28
Northumberland
Milecastle 28 demonstrates how a frontier site can be retained as a measured location even when its platform cannot be securely identified, while t…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 3
Tyne and Wear
No remains exist. It was thought to have stood at the junction of Byker Bridge and Stephen Street.
- Near Newcastle upon Tyne
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 4
Tyne and Wear
It was found between the predicted positions of Turrets 4A and 4B, which has prompted suggestions that the numbering of this stretch should be reco…
- Near Newcastle upon Tyne
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 45
Northumberland
Milecastle 45 lets visitors read a Roman fortlet removed for stone through robber trenches, aerial traces and Walltown Crags’ exposed frontier sett…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 5
Tyne and Wear
The first milecastle west of the fort at Newcastle. Its supposed position is a road junction, and nothing of it survives.
- Near Newcastle upon Tyne
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 57
Cumbria
Its walls were never found: the milecastle survives only as a swelling in a field, a reminder that most of Hadrian's Wall's mile-stations still hid…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 6
Tyne and Wear
Its exact location is unknown. The Wall here runs beneath the A186, under roads and terraced houses.
- Near Newcastle upon Tyne
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 64
Cumbria
Nothing above ground survives here, yet a 1962 dig recovered the exact footprint of a Hadrian's Wall milecastle down to its cobbled road and blocke…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 7
Tyne and Wear
Never found. English Heritage places it midway between a turret located in 1751 and one with visible remains.
- Near Newcastle upon Tyne
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 8
Tyne and Wear
Two surveys a year apart put it 25 yards from each other. The Ordnance Survey maps the average.
- Near Newcastle upon Tyne
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Building or ruin · Roman
Milecastle 9
Tyne and Wear
The watershed of the Wall's archaeology: positions to the west are relatively well defined, those to the east considerably less so.
- Near Newcastle upon Tyne
- Rough ground
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