Milecastle 72 (Fauld Farm) was one of a series of Milecastles or small fortlets built at intervals of approximately one Roman mile along Hadrian's Wall...

A milecastle was a small fort (fortlet), a rectangular fortification built during the period of the Roman Empire. They were placed at intervals of approximately...

Soldiers were garrisoned along the line of the wall in large forts, smaller milecastles, and intervening turrets. In addition to the wall's defensive military...

Milecastle 65 (Tarraby) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY40855793). Milecastle 65 is located about 1 km northwest of the Roman fort...

Milecastle 61 (Wallhead) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY45586088). Milecastle 61 is believed to lie close to Wallhead Farm in the...

Milecastle 64 (Drawdykes) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY41775874). Milecastle 64 is 100 metres west of Brunstock Beck on the waste...

Milecastle 62 (Walby East) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY44306049). Milecastle 62 is about 500 metres east of the hamlet of Walby...

Milecastle 71 (Wormanby) was one of a series of Milecastles or small fortlets built at intervals of approximately one Roman mile along Hadrian's Wall...

Milecastle 59 (Old Wall) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY48546174). Milecastle 59 is on level ground 450 metres east of the hamlet...

Milecastle 66 (Stanwix Bank) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY39735678). Milecastle 66 was on the north, Stanwix, side of the River...

Milecastle 63 (Walby West) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY43155973). Milecastle 63 is about 800 metres southwest of the hamlet of...

Milecastle 73 (Dykesfield) was one of a series of Milecastles or small fortlets built at intervals of approximately one Roman mile along Hadrian's Wall...

Milecastle 60 (High Strand) was one of a series of Milecastles or small fortlets built at intervals of approximately one Roman mile along Hadrian's Wall...

Milecastle 69 (Sourmilk Bridge) was one of a series of Milecastles or small fortlets built at intervals of approximately one Roman mile along Hadrian's...

Milecastle 70 (Braelees) was one of a series of Milecastles or small fortlets built at intervals of approximately one Roman mile along Hadrian's Wall...

passes through the old manor boundaries just to the south of the village. Milecastle 60 would have been placed here although its exact location is uncertain...

military road led from it and followed the Wall, linking its forts and milecastles. The bridge and its fort were built at the north end of Cade's Road,...

Ala Gallorum Petriana, the sole regiment of this size along the wall. Milecastle 65 was also built on the wall about 1km northwest of the fort. The garrison...

Declareuil, Rome the Law-Giver, London: Routledge, 2013, ISBN 0-415-15613-0, p. 72 Clifford Ando, Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire...

response was to provide a frontier zone in the western sector of forts and milecastles, built of turf and timber (the "Turf Wall"), the standard construction...

response was to provide a frontier zone in the western sector of forts and milecastles, built of turf and timber (the "Turf Wall"), the standard construction...

K. S., Richmond, I. A. and Simpson, F. Gerald. (1952) "Turrets and milecastles between Burgh-by-Sands and Bowness-on-Solway." Transactions of the Cumberland...

Cumbrian Coast Forts (North to South) Bibra Alauna Burrow Walls Gabrosentum Milecastles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26...

again and - where necessary - repaired. Most of the passages of the milecastles in the north were bricked up and causeways over the forward defensive...