Before Hadrian's Wall was built (122 AD), the Stanegate road from Corbridge to Carlisle served as the principal frontier. Between the abandonment of the Antonine advance and the Wall's construction, Roman garrisons on the Stanegate — at Vindolanda, Housesteads, Chesterholm, and Corbridge — bore the brunt of tribal pressure from the north. The Vindolanda tablets document the constant alertness required: one memorably records scouts observing enemy movements.
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