Seatsides 2 is one of a pair of Roman temporary marching camps identified near Seatsides farm in Northumberland, lying just south of Hadrian's Wall in the central sector between Housesteads and Great Chesters. As a temporary camp it was a short-lived earthwork enclosure built to protect troops on the march, on manoeuvres, or engaged in construction work, likely dating to the campaigns of the late 1st to 2nd century AD associated with frontier building and consolidation.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Camps in this corridor are typically interpreted as accommodation for troops working on the Wall itself, on the Vallum, or on the Stanegate road, and the cluster around Seatsides contributes to the dense pattern of temporary works that document the logistics of frontier construction and patrolling. Its pairing with Seatsides 1 makes the locality useful for studying successive phases of military activity at a single spot.
The site is known principally from aerial photography and earthwork survey, which have traced sections of rampart and ditch defining the enclosure; no significant excavation has been published, and dating evidence and internal features remain essentially unrecorded.
Seatsides 2 is one of a pair of Roman temporary marching camps identified near Seatsides farm in Northumberland, lying just south of Hadrian's Wall in the central sector between Housesteads and Great Chesters. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Seatsides 2 Roman temporary camp 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 Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp (0.3 km), Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp (0.5 km), Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp (0.6 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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