Milecastle 36 (King's Hill) was one of the milecastles on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY79726931). There is little to see on the ground as most of the...
4 KB (349 words) - 09:05, 11 August 2024
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...
26 KB (2,011 words) - 11:14, 26 September 2023
Milecastle 33 (Shield on the Wall) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall, one of a series of small fortlets built at intervals of approximately...
7 KB (795 words) - 12:10, 11 September 2024
Milecastle 50 (High House) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY60676601). Milecastle 50 is west of Birdoswald fort. It lies 1391 metres...
4 KB (410 words) - 23:13, 11 April 2022
Milecastle 27 (Low Brunton) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. It was located on the line of Hadrian's Wall, approximately midway between the...
6 KB (642 words) - 09:06, 11 August 2024
Milecastle 0 is a possible milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall which may have preexisted the fort of Segedunum. Although its existence has been suggested...
5 KB (558 words) - 09:04, 11 August 2024
Milecastle 2 (Walker) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. No remains are currently visible, having been built over, but its probable location...
6 KB (558 words) - 09:06, 11 August 2024
Milecastle 3 (Ouseburn) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. No remains exist, but it was thought to have been located at the junction of the...
6 KB (647 words) - 09:05, 11 August 2024
Milecastle 18 (East Wallhouses) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. It is located to the west of the settlement of East Wallhouses in Northumberland...
9 KB (1,075 words) - 09:04, 11 August 2024
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...
3 KB (289 words) - 23:33, 10 December 2023
Milecastle 35 (Sewingshields) is one of the milecastles on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY80497018). The remains still exist as exposed masonry. The...
5 KB (484 words) - 09:03, 11 August 2024
Milecastle 4 (Westgate Road) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. Its remains exist beneath the Newcastle Arts Centre at 67-75 Westgate Road...
6 KB (670 words) - 09:04, 11 August 2024
Milecastle 50TW (High House) was a milecastle on the Turf Wall section of Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY60716583). The milecastle is located close to...
10 KB (1,205 words) - 09:04, 11 August 2024
Milecastle 34 (Grindon) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. There are no visible remains, but the site is within a small, tree-filled, walled...
8 KB (883 words) - 09:06, 11 August 2024
Milecastle 74 (Burgh Marsh) was one of a series of milecastles or small fortlets built at intervals of approximately one Roman mile along Hadrian's Wall...
3 KB (216 words) - 23:14, 11 April 2022
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,...
13 KB (1,508 words) - 00:02, 20 March 2024
Newcastle. Causeways have also been detected to the south of several milecastles. It is thought that the easternmost section of Hadrian's Wall between...
6 KB (880 words) - 11:35, 6 October 2024
valley immediately to the west, but its distance from Dere Street and that Milecastle 22 was also displaced from Dere Street implies that this was not a priority...
6 KB (812 words) - 08:11, 16 October 2024
point at Limestone Corner, and just over a mile west of the nearest milecastle, Milecastle 30. Only the fort's earthworks are now visible, the Wall at this...
12 KB (1,445 words) - 12:23, 24 July 2024
on the move, to elaborate permanent stone constructions, notably the milecastles of Hadrian's Wall. Roman forts were generally rectangular with rounded...
112 KB (13,802 words) - 21:18, 1 November 2024
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...
38 KB (5,587 words) - 00:54, 2 April 2024
and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50 (1010994)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 February...
10 KB (437 words) - 14:17, 4 August 2024
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...
205 KB (27,907 words) - 16:11, 1 September 2024
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 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43...
8 KB (1,028 words) - 10:12, 29 October 2024
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...
10 KB (1,223 words) - 13:00, 17 September 2024
Historic England, "Railway Bridge across the Poltross Burn, north of Milecastle 48, Hadrian's wall, Upper Denton (1045226)", National Heritage List for...
12 KB (496 words) - 04:49, 20 April 2022
again and - where necessary - repaired. Most of the passages of the milecastles in the north were bricked up and causeways over the forward defensive...
48 KB (6,446 words) - 23:34, 14 February 2024
Hadrian's Wall Milecastle and Turrets Hadrians Wall, Milecastle and Turrets...
77 KB (139 words) - 12:25, 18 January 2024