HADRIAN'S WALL MILECASTLE 71 (WORMANBY), CUMBRIA: INTERIM REPORT ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVALUATION, SEPTEMBER 2000
Author(s): Tony Wilmott
Milecastle 71 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.The milecastle was first located and partially excavated by S Bartle in 1961. Five trenches were excavated, and both the line of Hadrian's Wall and the eastern wall of the milecastle were located. Hadrian's Wall survived to a height of two courses above the demolished turf Wall. The milecastle wall had been reduced by ploughing and robbing to a small remnant of core, but the lower course of turf of the turf Wall milecastle survived well. There was no trace beneath the turf Wall of the cobble foundations discovered slightly to the west at Burgh by Sands and at milecastle 72.
- Report Number:
- 106/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 8
- Keywords:
- Excavation Milecastle Roman
