1 101 x Bowness (Roman Maia) at the western end of Hadrian's Wall was the second largest of the forts on the famous wall. A cohort was stationed here. It is now covered by a village and there are only a few remains that have survived.
#Bowness
2 101 x Birdoswald (Roman Camboglanna) contains some of the best preserved defences of a fort on Hadrian's Wall. Some ovens and a granary from the 2nd century AD survive. The fort was initially designed for a cavalry regiment, but was quickly occupied by an infantry cohort. Inscriptions have shown that Dacian troops were stationed there in the 3rd century AD.
#Birdoswald
3 101 x Greatchesters (Roman Aesica) was a later addition to Hadrian's Wall, being built in AD 128. A 6 mile channel brought water to the fort from the north. The south and west ramparts and their gates, along with some barracks and the arch of an underground strongroom, can still be seen.
#Greatchesters
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#Chesterholm,EW Vindolanda Letter
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#Housesteads CM
6 103 C Carrawburgh (Roman Brocolitia) was added later than most of the other forts on Hadrian's Wall. It was built around AD 130, covering the Vallum in the process, and only the earth rampart-mound remains. Nearby, however, is a fine temple dedicated to the god Mithras which was built around AD 205.
#Carrawburgh, The temple of Mithras near Carrawburgh.
7 102 B Chesters (Roman Cilurnum) contains excellent ruins of a bath-house, a bridge abutment, gates, barracks, stables and the Commander's house. Chesters was a cavalry fort and the Second Ala of Asturians from Spain garrisoned it in the 3rd century AD.
#Chesters, The bath-house at Chesters.
8 101 x Corbridge (Roman Corstopitum) was initially a turf-and-timber fort which was founded in AD 87. It was later rebuilt in stone and became a military supply depot for the other forts when Hadrian's Wall was built. The impressive 3rd and 4th century granaries at Corbridge can still be seen.
#Corbridge, The granaries at Corbridge.
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#Rudchester,IW Legions
10 101 x South Shields (Roman Arbeia), the most easterly fort, was intended initially to guard the mouth of the river Tyne. Later the whole area inside its walls was converted into a store-base for the emperor Septimius Severus' campaigns in Scotland in the early 3rd century AD. Many of its granaries are still visible, as well as a latrine.
# South Shields, The latrine at South Shields.
11 103 A In AD 122 the emperor Hadrian paid a visit of military inspection to Britain and commissioned a substantial frontier defence across England's narrowest point, from Wallsend to the Solway Firth. Within a few years a massive stone wall had been erected.@ To its north was a deep defensive ditch while to its south there was a military zone defined by a deep ditch (the Vallum) flanked on both sides by banks. Forts at regular intervals housed a permanent garrison who could rapidly be deployed wherever trouble arose. Milecastles and turrets lay between the forts.
