#Vercovicium

2023-01-28

For #RomanSiteSaturday this is #Housesteads, the more modern name for #Vercovicium, a #Roman #Fort along #HadriansWall in the north of #England. At Housesteads there is a section of the wall you're actually allowed to walk along (not that this stops people from walking along the bits you're not supposed to). This picture is of the #granary building. The pillars were to raise the floor and keep grain stored there dry.

#History #Archaeology

A bright day with plenty of white and grey clouds but large patches of clear blue sky too, over a typically English countryside view of rolling, grassy hills and groupings of trees. In the foreground are the ruins of a Roman building forming the outline of a long barn-like building with stone walls, complete and less than ten bricks high on three sides, but with an opening in front of our view. Dropping down from this entrance the ground space is filled with stone blocks arranged equidistant in a grid six wide by at least fifteen long.

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