HADRIAN'S WALL MILECASTLE 9 (CHAPEL HOUSE), TYNE AND WEAR: INTERIM REPORT ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVALUATION, SEPTEMBER 2000
Author(s): Tony Wilmott
Milecastle 9 is one of thirteen of these installations on Hadrian's Wall under regular or intermittent ploughing. Field evaluation was carried out on these milecastles in 1999-2000. Milecastle 9 was excavated by Birley in 1929. The trench excavated in 2000 confirmed the state of preservation of the milecastle, sampling the outer wall and the walls of an internal building, together with external surfaces. It now seems that the milecastle was constructed on earlier archaeological deposits. A ditch to the east of the milecastle was sampled. This may have been an additional element in the defences of the installation.
- Report Number:
- 100/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 15
- Keywords:
- Defence Excavation Milecastle Roman
