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The vallum and a British settlement between the field boundary west of turret 37a and the road to Steel Rigg car park is a scheduled ancient monument comprising elements of Hadrian's Wall's defensive system alongside evidence of Iron Age or Romano-British settlement activity. The vallum, the substantial earth bank running parallel to the wall itself, formed part of the Wall's rear defensive line and dates to the 2nd century AD, while the associated British settlement remains indicate pre-Roman or contemporary occupation of the area spanning wall miles 37, 38 and 39 in the Northumberland uplands. The monument preserves both the monumental engineering of the Roman frontier and archaeological evidence of the native British communities whose lands were intersected by this imperial boundary. Its location on the dramatic ridge landscape near Steel Rigg makes it a significant survival of the integrated Roman and indigenous settlement patterns that characterized this frontier zone.
The vallum and a British settlement 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 1010972. View the official record →
The vallum and a British settlement between the field boundary west of turret 37a and the road to Steel Rigg car park is a scheduled ancient monument comprising elements of Hadrian's Wall's defensive system alongside evidence of Iron Age or Romano-British settlement activity.
The vallum and a British settlement 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 1010972.
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 (1.1 km), Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp (1.9 km), Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp (2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of The vallum and a British settlement 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.
The vallum and a British settlement 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 Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.