The Roman temporary camp at Fourlaws lies in the Northumbrian uplands roughly 350m south-west of Fourlaws farm, on the line of Dere Street between Corbridge and the Cheviots. It is one of a cluster of marching camps in this corridor, almost certainly associated with the movement of Roman troops northwards during campaigns in the late 1st or 2nd century AD, though precise dating is unestablished.
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The camp forms part of the dense system of temporary fortifications strung along Dere Street, the principal Roman military artery into Scotland, which served as overnight halts for army units on the march. Its position contributes to understanding the scale and frequency of Roman troop movements through the North Tyne corridor during the Flavian, Antonine, or Severan campaigns.
The site is known primarily from aerial photography and earthwork survey, with cropmarks or low banks defining the typical playing-card outline; no significant excavation has been published, and no closely datable finds are recorded, so its size, gate arrangement, and campaign association remain inferred rather than demonstrated.
The Roman temporary camp at Fourlaws lies in the Northumbrian uplands roughly 350m south-west of Fourlaws farm, on the line of Dere Street between Corbridge and the Cheviots. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman temporary camp, 350m south-west of Fourlaws is classified as a Roman site — a civilian 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 Roman milestone N of Waterfalls Farm (1.2 km), Romano-British farmstead, 300m north of Buteland (2.9 km), 'Robin of Risingham' Roman Rock Carving (3.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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