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Hadrian's Wall between turret 37a and the Steel Rigg car park road is a scheduled ancient monument comprising stretches of the stone wall, ditch, and associated military infrastructure dating to the second century AD. This section lies within wall miles 37, 38 and 39 of the frontier system constructed under the Roman emperor Hadrian from approximately AD 122 onwards across northern Britain. The remains here preserve evidence of the wall's characteristic construction in stone, together with the defensive ditch running to the north, and represent part of the most extensively surviving segment of this major Roman military monument. The site's location in the Northumberland uplands on the Whin Sill geology contributes to the preservation of both the wall's physical fabric and the dramatic topographical context in which this linear frontier was built and maintained.
Hadrian's Wall and associated features between the field boundary west of turret 37a and the road to Steel Rigg car park in wall miles 37, 38 and 39 is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010966. View the official record →
Hadrian's Wall between turret 37a and the Steel Rigg car park road is a scheduled ancient monument comprising stretches of the stone wall, ditch, and associated military infrastructure dating to the second century AD.
Hadrian's Wall and associated features between the field boundary west of turret 37a and the road to Steel Rigg car park in wall miles 37, 38 and 39 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1010966.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Vindolanda (Chesterholm) Roman forts, civil settlement and cemeteries, adjacent length of the Stanegate Roman road and two milestones (1.5 km), Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp (2 km), Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp (2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Hadrian's Wall and associated features between the field boundary west of turret 37a and the road to Steel Rigg car park in wall miles 37, 38 and 39's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Hadrian's Wall and associated features between the field boundary west of turret 37a and the road to Steel Rigg car park in wall miles 37, 38 and 39 stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is dolerite and tholeiitic basalt.