🛡️ Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Markham Cottage Roman temporary camps, Stanegate road, and frontier cemeteries
📋 Fast Facts
- Two Roman temporary camps with classic geometric ditches and timber palisades
- Preserved section of the Stanegate, an early strategic frontier road built before Hadrian's Wall
- Two Roman cemeteries containing inhumations, cremations, and personal grave goods
- Part of the transnational Frontiers of the Roman Empire UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Markham Cottage site in northern England preserves a concentrated sequence of Roman frontier infrastructure dating to the ...