Joining The Dots On Our Landscape
By Crasterfarian The more I read and write about history, the more I understand that what we are left with in today’s landscape are simply ghosts… Read More »Joining The Dots On Our Landscape
Romans
Holy Cross Church, Wallsend: Echoes of Rome and Anglo-Saxon Faith
By Crasterfarian Tucked quietly above the wooded valley of the Wallsend Burn, on a high spur of land and buried in the back of a modern… Read More »Holy Cross Church, Wallsend: Echoes of Rome and Anglo-Saxon Faith
The Wall They Forgot to Rob — A Message for the New Year
By Crasterfarian Many people travel from all around the world to visit our World Heritage Site at Hadrian’s Wall, and rightly so. They “ooohh” and “ahhh”… Read More »The Wall They Forgot to Rob — A Message for the New Year
‘Ubbanford’ — Norham: Northumbria’s Gateway
By Crasterfarian Ubbanford, or Norham as it is now known, owes its existence to one simple, decisive fact: this is the closest reliable ford on the… Read More »‘Ubbanford’ — Norham: Northumbria’s Gateway
Roman Pragmatism and Experimentation in the North
By The Crasterfarian When people picture a Roman fort, they often imagine the neat, playing-card rectangle that appears in every textbook. It’s a shape built on… Read More »Roman Pragmatism and Experimentation in the North
The Coquet Roman Complex: A Forgotten Artery of the Frontier
A Theory by The Crasterfarian and Anthony Simm Background The River Coquet is absent from conventional accounts of Roman military infrastructure in Northumberland. Yet when… Read More »The Coquet Roman Complex: A Forgotten Artery of the Frontier
Roman Arrowhead Found at Tynemouth
By Luan Hanratty This remarkable and unmistakable discovery, as well as the other finds, have emerged from between 60cm-75cm down on a 60cm-wide x 100cm-long… Read More »Roman Arrowhead Found at Tynemouth
Peel Gap: The Oddball Turret of Hadrian’s Wall
By Crasterfarian The original layout of Hadrian’s Wall is famed for its order, or it was until they decided to add the forts but, in its… Read More »Peel Gap: The Oddball Turret of Hadrian’s Wall
The Roman Road into Tynemouth and What Remains Today
By Luan Hanratty Of course, we all know Hadrian’s Wall ended at Segedunum, but we’ve wrritten loads in these pages on what filled the gap… Read More »The Roman Road into Tynemouth and What Remains Today
Housesteads: How Rome Changed the British Diet
By Crasterfarian We’ve read a lot recently in articles I’ve written about the importance of water to the Romans. The aqueducts at Cilurnum (Chesters) and Aesica… Read More »Housesteads: How Rome Changed the British Diet