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Excavations near Hadrian's Wall at Tarraby Lane 1976

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

G. H. Smith ,
B. Dickinson ,
B.R. Hartley ,
S. Austen ,
K.F. Hartley ,
T. J. Wilkinson  and
N. Balaam
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The project was a rescue excavation before housing development, mainly between Hadrian's Wall and the Vallum, close to the fort of Petriana at Stanwix. Traces were found of a pre Wall field-system. A minor Roman road was found running parallel to and 80 m south of the Vallum. A substantial Roman boundary of postsettings for posts over 2 m high was found running between, and at right angles to, the Wall and Vallum. In one area south of the Vallum a series of ditches of the second century A.D. suggested meadowland associated with a vicus of the nearby fort. To assist in its conservation the fragmentary remains of the Wall were traced and their position recorded. No trace was found of a Military Way; it may have been obliterated by an historically-recorded medieval road found parallel to and immediately south of the Wall. The position of Milecastle 65 was located by geophysical survey and found by test excavation to survive at foundation-level.

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Britannia , Volume 9 , November 1978 , pp. 19 - 56
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Copyright © G. H. Smith 1978. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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