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HOUSESTEADS ROMAN FORT

Original site of angle tower North gate Angle tower Interval tower Interval tower

Rampart

Probable post-Roman church Turret 36B

I VII XIII Rampart Barrack 13 Barrack 14 Interval tower II Granaries

VIII XIV Hospital Headquarters Baths Building 15 XV III

IX VIA PRAETORIA East gate West gate VIA DECUMANA X

XVI IV VIA PRINCIPALIS

XVII V XI Interval tower Bakery XII

VI XVIII

Commanding officer’s house Longhouse Interval tower Angle tower

Interval tower South gate Bastle house Latrine Angle tower

V AD c.122–138 VI I Building 1 AD 170–270 AD 270–c.400 II Building 2 III IV Post Roman Buildings excavated by Bosanquet in 1898 and no longer visible (paler shade indicates robbed out walls). The Roman numerals are Civilian settlement the building numbers allocated by XXII Bosanquet. XI Buildings excavated in the 1930s and no longer visible (paler shade XVI X indicates robbed out walls). The VII Roman numerals are the building Course of Roman road IX numbers allocated for those to Vindolanda VIII excavations. Not all the buildings Building 8 (murder house) are shown. XVII XXVII XIX XII XVIII N XXIII XIII

XXVI XXVXXIV XIV

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This drawing is English Heritage copyright and is supplied for the purposes of private research. It may not be reproduced in any medium without the express written permission of English Heritage. February 2015 HOUSESTEADS ROMAN FORT Housesteads Roman Fort in its wider landscape

26 N 0m Knag Burn gate

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G 2 5 0 WHINSILL RIDGE B m U 25 R 2 0 N 70m m

280m Military way 290m Milecastle 37 Embanked Vicus fields

Military way Terraced fields

0m 28 Museum Vicus

240m

m 270 Line of Vallum

230m Terraced fields 260m Terraced fields Temple 250m

Vindolanda 220m m (3km) 240

0m 22 CHAPEL HILL

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Mithraeum

Visible Roman remains Excavated remains no longer visible Remains known from aerial photography and survey 0 200m