Two Roman cemeteries at Vindolanda (Henshaw)
[NY 763664, NY 767662] Conventional signs for sites of two cemeteries. (1)
Wallis records several cremations dug up in the garden at Archy's Flat, about 600yds west of the fort along the Stanegate; and a tombstone found in the same area before 1810, and inscribed DM Ingenui uixit annis xxllll memses llllet dies vll (3) is fixed to the wall of an outhouse at Chesterholme. Hodgson also 'learnt' of another cemetery south west of the fort just north of the hill known as Chapelsteads or Kingcairn Hill. (2)(3)
Archy's Flat is probably the present Causeway House at NY 76296633. No recent finds have been recorded. (4)
Watching brief at NGR NY 763664 failed to confirm the site of the Roman cremation cemetery. The equation of Causeway House with Archy's Flat is incorrect and the cemetery site is mislocated. Archy's Flat is identified by MacLauchlan's survey (1857) as lying 400m west of Vindolanda on the north side of the Stanegate at NY 76598040, and not the 700m or so to the west where Causeway House lies. (5)
Roman cemeteries part of national monument number 28471. Scheduling revised on 14th July 1997. The fields on the north side of the Stanegate from north east of Vindolanda fort to west of Causeway House have been identified as containing one of the cemeteries belonging to the fort, in which pots containing cremated remains were found, as well as the tombstone of Ingenuus, who lived 24 years, 4 months and 7 days.
A further cemetery is known on the south side of the Stanegate west of the civil settlement (NY 76 NE 100). Burials were observed during the creation of Vindolanda west car park and at the site of Archy's Flat, approximately 400m west of the fort, where Hugh Ridley dug up burial urns in his garden in the 18th century. There are no surface remains visible of either cemetery and they survive as buried remains.
The cemeteries will survive as buried archaeological deposits and will provide information on Roman funerary practices. Where burials are inhumations, information relating to the sex, age and causes of death of the individuals will be preserved and provide further insight into the lives and life style of the inhabitants of Vindolanda in the Roman period. (6)
Located on the English Heritage map of Hadrian's Wall 2010. (7a)
General association with HER 6566 (Vindolanda Roman Fort), HER 6633 (Vindolanda Vicus). (7)
Wallis records several cremations dug up in the garden at Archy's Flat, about 600yds west of the fort along the Stanegate; and a tombstone found in the same area before 1810, and inscribed DM Ingenui uixit annis xxllll memses llllet dies vll (3) is fixed to the wall of an outhouse at Chesterholme. Hodgson also 'learnt' of another cemetery south west of the fort just north of the hill known as Chapelsteads or Kingcairn Hill. (2)(3)
Archy's Flat is probably the present Causeway House at NY 76296633. No recent finds have been recorded. (4)
Watching brief at NGR NY 763664 failed to confirm the site of the Roman cremation cemetery. The equation of Causeway House with Archy's Flat is incorrect and the cemetery site is mislocated. Archy's Flat is identified by MacLauchlan's survey (1857) as lying 400m west of Vindolanda on the north side of the Stanegate at NY 76598040, and not the 700m or so to the west where Causeway House lies. (5)
Roman cemeteries part of national monument number 28471. Scheduling revised on 14th July 1997. The fields on the north side of the Stanegate from north east of Vindolanda fort to west of Causeway House have been identified as containing one of the cemeteries belonging to the fort, in which pots containing cremated remains were found, as well as the tombstone of Ingenuus, who lived 24 years, 4 months and 7 days.
A further cemetery is known on the south side of the Stanegate west of the civil settlement (NY 76 NE 100). Burials were observed during the creation of Vindolanda west car park and at the site of Archy's Flat, approximately 400m west of the fort, where Hugh Ridley dug up burial urns in his garden in the 18th century. There are no surface remains visible of either cemetery and they survive as buried remains.
The cemeteries will survive as buried archaeological deposits and will provide information on Roman funerary practices. Where burials are inhumations, information relating to the sex, age and causes of death of the individuals will be preserved and provide further insight into the lives and life style of the inhabitants of Vindolanda in the Roman period. (6)
Located on the English Heritage map of Hadrian's Wall 2010. (7a)
General association with HER 6566 (Vindolanda Roman Fort), HER 6633 (Vindolanda Vicus). (7)
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FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1966; R W Emsley
EXCAVATION, Archy's Flat, Chesterholm ; Anon
EXCAVATION, Archy's Flat, Chesterholm ; Anon
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