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Housesteads Roman Fort

Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

The best-preserved fort on Hadrian's Wall, with Britain's oldest toilets.

Hadrian's Wall runs 73 miles across northern England, built from AD 122 on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian. Housesteads fort perches on a ridge along it and housed around 800 soldiers.

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When
Built AD 124
Where
55.0130, -2.3310
Group
Roman Britain

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English Heritage and National Trust, open daily.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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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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