Chesters Roman Fort
Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland
Chesters was a cavalry fort on Hadrian's Wall, beside the River North Tyne. Its bath house is the best preserved military bath house in Britain, with changing rooms, hot rooms and niches perhaps for clothes.
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- When
- From AD 124
- Where
- 55.0260, -2.1400
- Group
- Roman Britain
Visiting
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The Ledger of Lost Britain
The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.
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