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“The evidence at housteads fort shows that the roman solders on Hadrian’s Wall lived a comfortable life’s”

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Roman Legionaries who were from all over the Roman Empire built Hadrian’s Wall in six years. The building of the wall must have been welcome activity in this edge of the world outpost. The Romans had the best artisans working on this Wall, from architects to carpenters to masonries. The wall is mostly built of stone, and in parts is 10 Roman Feet wide and later 8. It was started in the east and reached the river irthing near what is now Carlisle. It then weaves west to the Solway Firth but is built of 18" by 12" by 6" regulation turf blocks. Mile castles were placed at regular intervals, with each pair of Mile castles having two Turrets between them. A Mile castle could garrison between 8 and 32 men and the Turrets could also shelter some soldiers but acted primarily as lookout vantage points. As Hadrian's Wall developed more legionaries were moved up to the wall and then large Forts like Bird Oswald were built which were along side it. These Forts had gates to allow traffic to pass north and south through the wall.

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Housteads was one of these forts perched high upon a crag over looking the Scottish countryside perfect site for a fort but what was it like to live in the fort? Was life comfortable for the solders? Was it a healthy place to live? In this essay ill look at how comfortable life was for the roman legionaries. In the third centaury

It is evident in the ruins of the fort that the Romans were able to make use of water. In the south east of the site they had a network stone gutters that ended up in the toilets ...

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