Hadrian’s Wall in Northern England is a popular tourist spot for those interested in British history. Visitors this year will get the chance to see the Roman bathhouse at Birdoswald before it is reburied by archaeologists.
Birdoswald was a Roman military base on Hadrian’s Wall, which was built in the AD120s during the reign of the emperor Hadrian. At the time of its building, it occupied the northernmost reaches of the Roman empire, stretching some 73 miles from east to west.
The bathhouse, which was discovered in 2021, is just outside of the Roman fort and is in an area known as the extramural settlement. These areas are thought to have housed a mixture of families of soldiers, civilians, traders and service providers. They commonly contained houses, communal spaces, workshops, taverns and other facilities you would find in a sprawling military town.
