Housesteads and Hadrian's Wall

The Ancients

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🗓️ 5 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Housesteads Roman Fort is one of the great, surviving treasures of Roman Britain. Once an auxiliary fort, it occupied a dominant position on Hadrian’s Wall. The Fort has proven vital in helping archaeologists and historians achieve a greater understanding about life on Hadrian’s Wall. From the worship of peculiar deities to everyday sanitation.

To chat through Housesteads’ extraordinary archaeology and what it can tell us about life along this frontier, I’m joined by Professor Jim Crow from the University of Edinburgh. Jim has conducted excavations at several locations along Hadrian’s Wall, including Housesteads. He also lectured me a few years back, so it was great to catch up.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ancients, a new podcast dedicated to all things, well, ancient.
0:08.0	I'm Tristan Hughes and in each episode I'll be chatting with a world-leading historian
0:12.6	or archaeologist about our distant past.
0:16.4	The art, the architecture, the battles, the larger-than-life personalities, events that
0:21.7	have helped shape the world we live in today.
0:24.6	From Neolithic Britain to the fall of Rome, from the Assyrians to Alexander the Great.
0:31.6	Today, I'm joined by Jim Crow.
0:36.2	Jim is a professor at the University of Edinburgh.
0:39.0	He's a Roman archaeologist and he lectured me a few years back when I was studying at Edinburgh
0:44.2	University.
0:45.2	And in particular today we're going to be talking about Hadrian's Wall and House
0:48.9	Stead's Roman Fort.
0:50.3	Jim has done excavations along the length of the wall, particularly at Sycamore Gap.
0:54.2	Famous tree, where all those postcards are taken.
0:57.5	But for this podcast we are talking mainly about House Stead's, the amazing archaeology
1:01.5	that has survived at that Roman Fort, the latrines, the barracks, the wall itself.
1:07.1	And what all this amazing archaeology can tell us about life on the frontier.
1:12.4	Enjoy.
1:14.4	Jim Crow, it's a pleasure to have you on the show.
1:17.0	Hello, Patristan.
1:18.0	We haven't seen you for a long time.
1:20.7	No, no, for all those listening Jim was once my professor at the University of Edinburgh
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