Haltwhistle Burn, Corstopitum and the Antonine Wall: A Reconsideration

Simpson, Grace

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“…Haltwhistle Burn: Gibson and Simpson 1909;Simpson 1974Throp: Simpson 1913, 363-81 Castle Hill, Boothby: Simpson 1934St Joseph 1951, 55 Marienfels: ORLB 5A; Schonberger 1985, 461 Auf dem Pohl bei Kernel: ORLB 7; Baatz and Hermann 1982, 373;Schonberger 1985, 380 Heftrich: ORLB 9;Schonberger 1985, 478 Feldberg: an early fortlet or a timber predecessor to the known stone numerus fort may be suspected, to guard the highest pass through the Taunus, although to date nothing larger than an early timber tower (WP3/45*) has been discovered; references in Baatz and Hermann 1982, 266-9 Saalburg: ORLB 11 Ockstadter Wald: ORLA 4, 59;ORLB 12 Butzbach: Mttller 1962;Baatz and Hermann 1982, 246 Arnsburg: ORLB 16 Echzell: Baatz and Hermann 1982, 264-5 Ober-Florstadt: site not actually known but fortlet postulated by Schonberger (1985, 463); cf. Pferdehirt 1986, 27 Heldenbergen: Baatz and Hermann 1982, 455;Czysz 1980;Rupprecht 1975 Hanau-Salisberg: existence of auxiliary fort deduced from baths: Baatz and Hermann 1982, 334-7 Unterschwaningen: ORLA, 13, 76-99 Theilenhofen: the known stone fort was preceded either by a timber auxiliary fort on the same site, or possibly by a 1.90 ha site recognised from the air immediately to the west; Braun et al 1992, 42;cf.…”

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The Stanegate: A Frontier Rehabilitated

Hodgson¹

2000

Britannia

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Most students of Roman frontiers are familiar with the idea that, before the construction of Hadrian's Wall in c. 122, a system of frontier control had developed on the Tyne—Solway isthmus under Trajan, particularly after the withdrawal of the Roman army from southern Scotland in c. 105 (FIG. 1). A road running between Corbridge and Carlisle, known in medieval times as the Stanegate, has generally been seen as the basic component of this Trajanic frontier. The idea of the Stanegate road as a frontier originated with Forster, was developed by Collingwood, and the schedule of sites along it was formalised by Birley, who proposed a regular Stanegate system of forts at intervals of half a day's march, alternating with fortlets.

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The Stanegate: A Frontier Rehabilitated

Hodgson¹

2000

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“…There is thus no reason why BBi could not have arrived in the region of the Stanegate frontier before the decision to build Hadrian's Wall had been taken. 36 Today the presence of BBi on a site is held to indicate occupation in the A.D. 120s at the earliest, yet the types current at that time were being produced in Dorset at an earlier date.…”

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Pottery Production at Muncaster, Eskdale in the Second Century A. D.

Welsby¹

1985

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By D. A. WELSBY I N 1884 during the construction of a new road on the south side of Muncaster Fell in Eskdale, West Cumbria (grid ref. SD 131986), a Roman tile-kiln was uncovered and brought to the attention of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. 1 Since that date a number of chance finds of Roman material have been made and small-scale excavations have been conducted on the site. The most recent work, directed by R. L. Bellhouse from 1957 to i960 was published in Transactions, 2 together with a summary of the present state of knowledge concerning the site. 3 In his excavations at Ravenglass from 1976 to 1978, Dr T. W. Potter identified a distinctive fabric type in the Roman fort which by its frequency suggested that it may have been produced locally. He also found one vessel 4 in a fabric apparently identical to that described by Miss Fair as having been found in the fort at Ravenglass and at the kiln site itself, and thought by her to have been produced there. Potter published 22 vessels as Muncaster products from Ravenglass and one from Watercrook, as well as suggesting that vessels in an identical fabric and, therefore, presumably from the same source had been found at a number of sites in the area ranging from Watercrook in the south to Beckfoot and Papcastle in the north. Two kilns have to date been excavated and provide clear evidence for the production of a wide range of building materials; bricks, imbrices, tegulae, box-tiles and voussoirs have all been found in the vicinity of the kilns. Bellhouse's excavations, however, produced less than 10 sherds of Roman pottery which were described, but not illustrated, in the excavation report. Of the six vessels published, five were unlikely to have been of local manufacture. Four were in black-burnished fabric and the mortarium was in a fabric and of a form that is usually thought to have been produced in the Carlisle area. The yield of Roman pottery from earlier excavations likewise would appear to have been small. The writer, whilst employed as the Lord Adams Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 'rediscovered' four small boxes of finds from the Muncaster kiln site in the University. Another box of finds, labelled 'Kirkhouse kiln site, Eskdale 1955-57' is a t Tullie House Museum, Carlisle (Ace. no. 15-1955.7). No such site is known in Eskdale; presumably Park House, the name often given to the Muncaster kilns, is meant. This material, which does not

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Romano-British and Related

Jones¹

1975

Archaeological Journal

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Haltwhistle Burn, Corstopitum and the Antonine Wall: A Reconsideration

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The Stanegate: A Frontier Rehabilitated

The Stanegate: A Frontier Rehabilitated

Pottery Production at Muncaster, Eskdale in the Second Century A. D.

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