English Places: Hexham and Chesters Roman Fort by Hadrian's Wall
Short pictorial video of Hexham, Northumberland and Chesters Roman Fort by Hadrian's Wall in northern England, UK. The bleak midwinter of 2009 just after the snow had melted away.
Chester's Roman Fort: Explore the 2000 year old Roman Fort on Hadrian's Wall
On the way to Scotland we had planned to stop somewhere along Hadrian's Wall. Mom really wanted to see it. I had heard that Housesteads Fort was the best place to go, but since we were coming from Barnard Castle we decided that Chester's Roman Fort was the better choice. Chester's Fort is only 1/4 mile West of Chollerford, in Northumberland, on B6318. This was the first of a few places we visited that had no direct connection to our family.
We went through the museum, which has a lot of interesting artifacts from the Roman period. A walk down a path from the back of the museum leads to the fort ruins.
Originally called Cilurnum, Chester's Fort was built ca. 124 AD, just after Hadrian's Wall. It's primary purpose was to guard the bridge across the River North Tyne. The fort replaced a turret, as forts were not part of the original design of Hadrian's Wall in 122. It straddled the wall with roughly half built North of the wall and the rest South. The fort housed a Cavalry Regiment of 500 soldiers called Augusta.
Around 178 AD the fort was occupied by the Second Asturians; a cavalry unit from Spain who remained at Chester's until the end of the Roman period. Much of the fort was rebuilt for the Asturians, and the visible barracks are from this time. During the period of 180 AD to 250 AD a settlement grew outside the fort walls. While there have been no excavations of the settlement, evidence from other forts suggest that it would have been abandoned by the end of the 3rd century due to the increase of civil wars and barbarian invasions.
Through the 4th century Chester's declined. Few inscriptions were made to record daily life or fort history. Soldiers were not paid cash as much as previously but instead received goods or services. Chester's would have been increasingly cut off from Rome, but it is not known whether the unit was removed or simply left to fend for themselves. There is no evidence of occupation of Chester's after the 5th century. Around 675 the bridge was dismantled to build the church at Hexham.
In 1796 the land was owned by Nathaniel Clayton. He had the fort leveled and buried to form a park between his mansion and the river. His son John inherited the place in 1832 and began excavation work at the fort. He also bought the land at Housesteads and began excavation work there. After John died in 1890 his nephew Nathaniel George Clayton continued work until 1895. He commissioned the museum in 1896, and it was finished in 1903.
In 1954 the fort, baths, and wall were placed in the care of the Ministry of Works, now English Heritage. As we had bought an English Heritage OVP we got in for free.
Chester's Roman Fort at English Heritage
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Chesters Fort was built to guard the Roman bridge which carried Hadrian's Wall and the military road over the River North Tyne. It was one of a series of permanent troop bases added during the construction of the Wall.
Occupied for nearly three centuries, its six-acre area housed a cavalry regiment of around 500 men, in the 3rd century its garrison was a unit from Asturias in northern Spain.
There is much to see in the grounds; all four principal gateways are well preserved, with short lengths of Wall adjoining them. The entire foundations of the headquarters building are visible, with a courtyard, hall, regimental temple and strongroom clearly laid out. The commandant's house would have been the most luxurious building in the fort.
Down by the river, the changing rooms, steam rooms and bathing areas of the garrison's bath house are extremely well preserved, as is the Roman bridge abutment on the opposite bank of the river.
The on-site museum, housed in a fine Victorian building, displays a collection of Roman finds retrieved by the local antiquarian John Clayton, including important early archaeological discoveries relating to the central section of the Wall.
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Chesters Roman Fort is 1/4 mile from Chollerford bridge on the B6318 (military road). It has one of the best preserved bathhouses you can see in Britain today.
CILURNUM - CHESTERS ROMAN FORT - NORTHUMBERLAND - 2011
Cilurnum or Cilurvum was a fort on Hadrian's Wall mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum. It is now identified with the fort found at Chesters (also known as Walwick Chesters to distinguish it from other sites named Chesters in the vicinity) near the village of Walwick, Northumberland, England. It was built in 123 AD, just after the wall's completion.
Cilurnum is considered to be the best preserved Roman cavalry fort along Hadrian's Wall. The site is now preserved by English Heritage as Chester's Roman Fort. There is a museum on the site, housing finds from the fort and elsewhere along the wall.
ANCIENT RUINS. THE MUSEUM IS WORTH A VISIT.
Chesters Roman Fort May 2015
Chesters was one of the key forts on the Roman Wall. It protected the crossing point of the North Tyne.
Chester Roman Fort
Video tour of Chester's Roman Fort Bath House
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Chesters Roman Fort Museum filmed as part of an ancient history project
Ingram to Chesters Roman Fort Circular, Breamish Valley, Northumberland ©
This is a seven mile moderate circular walk beginning at Ingram in the Breamish Valley, sometimes called the Ingram Valley, in the Northumberland National Park. It heads south west to a plantation passing cultivation terraces on the side of Ewe Hill and other evidence of ancient settlements. After the plantation it heads west along a bridleway which is tricky when the bracken is high (as it was for me in August). It then dips towards towards Chesters Burn and through a fenced wood towards Chesters Roman Fort remains by a house which I think is sometimes used as an outdoor pursuits and study centre. The route then turns south to a sheepfold where it turns eastwards past Thieves Road plantation before turning north along the sides of Cochrane Pike and Wether Hill back to Ingram Village.
Wherever you go stay safe, check the weather, plan ahead, let people know where you are going, take maps & compass with your gps and follow the countryside or access codes for where you are.
The birdsong was recorded in situ at Ingram Village Hall nearby.
Hadrians Wall - part 4 - Port Gate to Brocolitia
After meeting at Brocolitia there was a short transfer to the start of the walk at Port Gate.
The first section of this days walk treated us with some lovely views of the Simonside Hills away to the North before you drop down to Chollerford, passing the lovely church at Heavenfield on your way.
After crossing the River North Tyne at Chollerford we gradually rose up, passing Chesters Roman Fort and then following some 'true wall'. This is how everybody imagines wall walking to be with the wall on one side and stunning views.
We will then reached the location of Brocoltia Temple, a third-century mithraeum outside the Carrowburgh Fort. It was the largest of such buildings to occupy the site. Worship of Mithras (a cult orginating in Persia) and the Sun God was popular with the Romans.
Housesteads Roman Fort, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland England.
Housesteads Roman Fort is set high on a dramatic escarpment on Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site. Wander the barrack blocks and the hospital. Peer into the oldest toilets you'll ever see, (the communal Latrine) and admire the stunning panoramic views from this ancient fortress. The fort's original name was Vercovicium, meaning 'the place of the effective fighters'.
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Hexham Walk, Walks In Northumberland, England, UK
Hexham Walk, Walks In Northumberland, England, UK
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Visiting Vindolanda Roman Fort, Northumberland, England.
Title says it all really .
Vindolanda is a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) just south of Hadrian's Wall in northumberland, England.
Archaeological excavations of the site show it was under Roman occupation from roughly 85 AD to 370 AD. Located near the modern village of Bardon Mill in Northumberland, it guarded the Stanegate, the Roman road from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth. It is noted for the Vindolanda tablets, a set of wooden leaf-tablets that were, at the time of their discovery, the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain.
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Falconry Days
Vindolanda
Hexham Abbey
Northumberland Sausage Company
Walltown Crags - Hadrian's Wall
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Roman Army Museum
Corbridge Roman Town
Housesteads Fort and Museum - Hadrian's Wall
Hareshaw Linn
Hadrians Wall Path May 2015 Newcastle upon Tyne to Heddon on the Wall
Walk along Hadrians Wall Path from Wallsend to Heddon on the Wall and then to Chesters Roman Fort(First part of the walk)
Hadrian's Wall - Chesters to Great Chesters
Flight along the wall past four forts and the sites or remains of Milecastles 28 - 42 as well as other remnants best seen from the air.
The names reflect modern and original usage, including those selected in Anthony Riches' excellent Empire series.
At the east gate of Birdoswald Roman fort
A visit to Bridoswald fort on Hadrian’s Wall
Chesters Roman Fort, Hadrian's Wall