This is the cremation cemetery associated with the Roman fort of Alauna (Maryport) on the Cumbrian coast, lying some 380m southeast of the fort itself. It served the military garrison and associated civilian settlement (vicus) and was likely in use from the fort's foundation under Hadrian (c. AD 122) through the 2nd and into the 3rd century, when cremation gave way to inhumation as the dominant rite.
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Maryport was a key command post in the Hadrianic coastal defence system extending the Wall's frontier down the Solway shore, and its cemeteries are an important component in understanding the demography, religion, and funerary practice of its garrison — successively cohors I Hispanorum, cohors I Delmatarum and cohors I Baetasiorum. The cremation cemetery complements the site's exceptional epigraphic record (notably the Maryport altars) by providing material evidence for the lives, not just the careers, of soldiers and dependants.
Cremation burials in this area have been recorded through antiquarian discoveries and more recent fieldwork by the Senhouse Museum Trust and Newcastle University, including geophysical survey and excavation in the wider extramural landscape that revealed cremation deposits, urned burials and possible enclosed funerary plots. Detailed published assemblage data for this specific cemetery remain limited, and much of the cemetery's extent and structure is still defined principally through geophys
This is the cremation cemetery associated with the Roman fort of Alauna (Maryport) on the Cumbrian coast, lying some 380m southeast of the fort itself. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a fort site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman cremation cemetery, 380m south east of Maryport Roman fort is classified as a Roman fort — a military site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Alauna/Alione (0.4 km), Maryport (Alavna) Roman fort, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast, its associated vicus and a length of Roman road (0.4 km), Sea Brows (milefortlet 23), 500m south west of Bank End part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast (0.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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