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Hadrian's Frontiers in Northern Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2022

Paul Bidwell
Paul Bidwell*
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North Shields, Tyne and Wear bidwepa@aol.com
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Abstract

The structural relationships of the forts, Wall curtain and Vallum are reviewed and a revised sequence of construction for Hadrian's Wall is proposed. The original plan (Stage 1) incorporated much of the earlier Trajanic frontier (the Stanegate) and probably included the Devil's Causeway which ran north-eastwards from Corbridge. Forts were then added to the line of the Wall as a result of three modifications of the plan (Stages 2–4), continuing until late in Hadrian's reign. The Vallum was added in Stage 3. Hadrian probably conceived the original plan for the Wall, but the modifications that followed seem to have been consequences of shifting focuses of loyalty, resistance and outright warfare, beyond and behind the frontier.

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Devil's CausewayfortsHadrianHadrian's WallinscriptionspotteryStanegateVallum
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Britannia , Volume 53 , November 2022 , pp. 99 - 124
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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Bellhouse, R.L. 1952: ‘A newly-discovered Roman road from Drumburgh to Kirkbride’, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 2nd series 52, 41–5Google Scholar
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Bidwell, P. 2021: ‘Hadrian's Wall at Chesters and Great Chesters: a reassessment’, Archaeologia Aeliana 5th series 50, forthcomingGoogle Scholar
Bidwell, P., and Holbrook, N. 1989: Hadrian's Wall Bridges, English Heritage Archaeological Report 9, LondonGoogle Scholar
Bidwell, P.T. and Snape, M.E. 2002: ‘The history and setting of the Roman fort at Newcastle upon Tyne’, Archaeologia Aeliana 5th series 31, 251–83Google Scholar
Bidwell, P. and Watson, M. 1996: ‘Excavations on Hadrian's Wall at Denton, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1986–89’, Archaeologia Aeliana 5th series 24, 1–56Google Scholar
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Birley, A.R. 2005: The Roman Government of Britain, Oxford.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Birley, E. 1934–5: ‘Excavations per lineam valli in 1934’, Durham University Journal 29, 93–9Google Scholar
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Collingwood, R.G., and Myres, J.N.L. 1937: Roman Britain and the English Settlements (2nd edn), OxfordGoogle Scholar
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Haverfield, F. 1897: ‘Report of the Cumberland Excavation Committee, 1896’, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 1st series 14, 413–33Google Scholar
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Hodgson, N. 2017: Hadrian's Wall. Archaeology and History at the Limit of Rome's Empire, MarlboroughGoogle Scholar
Hodgson, N. 2021: ‘The end of the Ninth legion, war in Britain and the building of Hadrian's Wall’, Britannia 52, 97–118CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hodgson, N., McKelvey, J., and Muncaster, W. 2012: The Iron Age on the Northumberland Coastal Plain. Excavations in Advance of Development 2002–2010, Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums Archaeological Monograph 3, Newcastle upon TyneGoogle Scholar
Jobey, G. 1982: ‘Between Tyne and Forth: some problems’, in Clack, P. and Haselgrove, S. (eds), Rural Settlement in the Roman North, Durham, 7–20Google Scholar
Keppie, L. 2004: The Legacy of Rome. Scotland's Roman Remains (3rd edn), EdinburghGoogle Scholar
Macdonald, G. 1934: The Roman Wall in Scotland (2nd edn), OxfordGoogle Scholar
Mattingly, D.J. 1994: Tripolitania, Ann Arbor, MIGoogle Scholar
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Poulter, J. 2009: Surveying Roman Military Landscapes across Northern Britain, British Archaeological Reports British Series 492, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Poulter, J. 2014: Further Discoveries about the Surveying and Planning of Roman Roads in Northern Britain. A Sequel to BAR 492, British Archaeological Reports British Series 598, OxfordCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ratledge, D. 2021: ‘The Western Stanegate Roman road. Carlisle to Kirkbride’, Roman Roads Research Association Newsletter 19, 4–8Google Scholar
Richmond, I.A. 1939: ‘Hadrian's Wall, 1938’, Archaeologia Aeliana 4th series 16, 264–77Google Scholar
Richmond, I.A. 1950: ‘Hadrian's Wall, 1939–1949’, Journal of Roman Studies 40, 43–56CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Richmond, I.A. 1956: ‘Excavations at Milecastle 49 (Harrow's Scar), 1953’, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 2nd series 56, 18–27Google Scholar
Rushworth, A. 2009: Housesteads Roman Fort – The Grandest Station. Excavation and Survey at Housesteads, 1954–95, by Charles Daniels, John Gillam, James Crow and Others (2 vols) SwindonGoogle Scholar
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Simpson, G. 1972: ‘Samian pottery and a Roman road at Corbridge’, Archaeologia Aeliana 4th series 50, 217–33Google Scholar
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Swinbank, B., and Spaul, J.E.H. 1951: ‘The spacing of forts on Hadrian's Wall’, Archaeologia Aeliana 4th series 29, 221–38Google Scholar
Symonds, M. 2020: ‘Fords and the frontier: waging counter-mobility on Hadrian's Wall’, Antiquity 94, 92–109CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Symonds, M. 2021: Hadrian's Wall. Creating Division, LondonCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thomas, E. 2007: Monumentality and the Roman Empire. Architecture in the Antonine Age, OxfordCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tomlin, R.S.O., and Hassall, M.W.C. 1998: ‘Roman Britain in 1997. II. Inscriptions’, Britannia 29, 433–43CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ward-Perkins, J.B. 1981: Roman Imperial Architecture (2nd edn), HarmondsworthGoogle Scholar
Welfare, H. 2013: ‘A Roman camp, quarries, and the Vallum at Shield-on-the-Wall (Newbrough)’, Archaeologia Aeliana 5th series 42, 81–99Google Scholar
Wilson, R.J.A., and Caruana, I.D. (eds) 2004: Romans on the Solway: Essays In Honour of Richard Bellhouse, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Extra Series 31, KendalGoogle Scholar
Woolliscroft, D.J. 2009: ‘Excavations by G.D.B. Jones at two forts south of Burgh-by-Sands’, in Breeze, D.J. and Woolliscroft, D.J. (eds), Excavation and Survey at Roman Burgh-by-Sands, Cumbria Archaeological Research Report 1, 56–76Google Scholar
Woolliscroft, D.J., and Jones, G.D.B. 2004: ‘Excavations on the Cumberland coast at Silloth, and at Fingland Rigg, 1994’, in Wilson and Caruana 2004, 186–94Google Scholar
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