Fortified place · Iron Age
Meare Lake Village
Somerset
A settlement at Meare on the Somerset Levels, occupied from about 300 BC to AD 100.
- Near Meare
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Meaux Abbey
East Riding of Yorkshire
Its sale of land at Wyke to Edward I in 1293 helped found Kingston upon Hull: a monastery whose estate dealings shaped the growth of a major Englis…
- Near Beverley
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Meehambee Dolmen
County Roscommon
Its rear support gave way sometime after the medieval period, tipping a 24-tonne capstone into the steep tilt that still defines this unexcavated N…
- Near Boyle
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum
Perth and Kinross
Twenty-seven Pictish stones pulled from the ruins of a church that burned in 1869, now in the village schoolhouse: including one carved by the Pict…
- Near Meigle
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Melbourne Castle
Derbyshire
Fifteen metres of surviving rubble wall are folded into a Melbourne farm building, the last visible fragment of a castle that held a captured Frenc…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Melchbourne Preceptory
Bedfordshire
A house of the Knights Hospitaller whose founding family's descendants rose to lead the order in England, and whose last stone survived eight centu…
- Near Melchbourne
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Melingriffith Tin Plate Works
Cardiff
By the end of the 18th century this was the largest tin-plate works on earth, and its water pump survives as a scheduled monument (legally protecte…
- Near Whitchurch, Cardiff
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Melingriffith Water Pump
Cardiff
Built to settle a legal fight over stolen water, its towering paddle wheel and oak beams survive as one of Britain's few intact eighteenth-century…
- Near Whitchurch, Cardiff
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Mellifont Abbey
County Louth
The first Cistercian abbey (a monastery headed by an abbot) built in Ireland, and the template every one of its daughter houses across the country…
- Near Drogheda
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Membury Camp
Wiltshire
A single ring bank hides two collisions of history at once: an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) stronghold whose eas…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Membury Castle
Devon
Membury Castle is a hillfort, a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground during the Iron Age, the centuries before the Roman conques…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Memsie Cairn
Aberdeenshire
The sole survivor of a cemetery of three great Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) cairns, its lost neighbours quarried…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Mên Scryfa
Cornwall
Mên Scryfa preserves an early medieval (roughly AD 400–1100, between the Romans and the Normans) Latin inscription on a standing stone, connecting…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Mên-an-Tol
Cornwall
Mên-an-Tol is Cornwall’s best-known holed stone, combining an enigmatic late Neolithic monument: from the first farming period in Britain, roughly…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Mendham Priory
Suffolk
A Suffolk priory: a religious house led by a prior, a rank below an abbot: dissolved in 1537, about which the readily available sources record almo…
- Near Mendham
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Fortified place · Medieval
Menlo Castle
County Galway
A Blake-family stronghold on the Corrib whose grand 18th-century additions ended in a single catastrophic fire in 1910, claiming a life never accou…
- Near Galway
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Merdon Castle
Hampshire
A bishop's castle of the 1130s was raised inside a long-abandoned Iron Age hillfort, a defended settlement on high ground from the period before th…
- Near Winchester
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Fortified place · Medieval
Merlinpark Castle
County Galway
A well-preserved Galway tower house near Merlin Park University Hospital, associated with the Lynch family and retaining a rare sheela na gig carving.
- Near Galway
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Merryton Low
Staffordshire
A hill a few miles east of Leek, in the civil parish of Fawfieldhead.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Merton Priory
Greater London
Merton Priory was a major Augustinian house on the River Wandle where the Statute of Merton was enacted in 1236, while its association with Thomas…
- Near Merton
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Metchley Fort
West Midlands
Rebuilt four times in little more than a century, Metchley is among the most excavated Roman military sites in the Midlands, its full occupation st…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Mettingham Castle
Suffolk
A licence to crenellate in 1342, three moated courts, and by 1562 a bakehouse, brewhouse, malting house and aisled hall inside the walls.
- Near Mettingham
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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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Sacred place · Medieval
Michelham Priory
East Sussex
A moated Augustinian priory whose surviving buildings: barn, gatehouse, refectory and watermill: trace six centuries of use, ending as a Canadian a…
- Near Hailsham
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Micklegate Priory
North Yorkshire
Its parish church, Holy Trinity on Micklegate, still stands on the same ground the monks held: a rare unbroken line from secular canons to Benedict…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Mid Gleniron
Dumfries and Galloway
Six burial cairns stand grouped together in the countryside of Dumfries and Galloway, two of them holding a particular importance for archaeologist…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Middleham Castle
North Yorkshire
A childhood home turned royal seat: Richard III married into the family here and made Middleham his main residence before losing throne and son wit…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
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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Fortified place · Medieval
Middleton Mount
Norfolk
Middleton Mount shows a common but important Norman strategy: placing a castle mound and enclosed yard on an existing Anglo-Saxon estate centre: wh…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Midford Castle
Somerset
A Gothic Revival house of 1775 south of Bath, given a three-towered plan by John Carter.
- Near Bath
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Midhowe Broch
Orkney Islands
An exceptionally well-preserved broch where a spring-fed tank, roasting hearth and converted workshop spaces make everyday life in an Iron Age coas…
- Near Rousay
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Midsummer Hill
Herefordshire
Unusually, its ramparts enclose two separate summits and the valley between them, encircling a community of around 1,500 people who lived here unti…
- Near Hollybush
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Milber Down
Devon
Milber Down is a hillfort, a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches during the Iron Age, the centuries before the Roman c…
- Near Milber, Newton Abbot
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Milden Castle
Suffolk
The chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond records a village granted to a man because he could defend it against this castle's castellan.
- Near Milden
- Some walking
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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
Mediolanum (Whitchurch)
Shropshire
Mediolanum shows Whitchurch’s change from a Roman military fort to an industrial and commercial town on the Chester–Wroxeter route, with timber tra…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Melcombe Priory
Dorset
Melcombe Priory was England’s last Dominican foundation, combining a short monastic history with a documented contribution to Melcombe Regis’s coas…
- Near Weymouth
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mellor hill fort
Greater Manchester
Mellor hill fort is Greater Manchester’s only hill fort, preserving an Iron Age settlement: from the centuries before Rome arrived: above the Chesh…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Menacuddle
Cornwall
Menacuddle is a scheduled fifteenth-century holy well in wooded St Austell, remembered both for its memorial restoration and for local wishing and…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Mersea Fort
Essex
Mersea Fort was a Henry VIII coastal artillery fort guarding the River Colne and Colchester, with a later life in civil war defence, oyster governa…
- Rough ground
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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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