Housesteads Roman Fort (Borcovicus or Vercovicium) (Bardon Mill) - Source of Reference
The information on this website is based on a range of published and unpublished works. Below is a list of the source of information used in writing this record.
1) Ordnance Survey Map OS 6 inch 1957
2) Housteads Roman Fort 1961 (Ministry of Works)
3) Field Investigators Comments F1 RWE 05-MAY-1966
4) Salway, P, 1965. The Frontier People of Roman Britain. (168)
5) Britannia 25 1994 264
6) AML Reports 20, January to June 1996
7) Scheduled Monument Notification 14-Jul-1997
8) TimeScape Research Surveys, 2003. A Geophysical Survey of Housesteads Roman Fort. Final Report, April 2003.
9) English Heritage, 2002. Housesteads Roman Fort Conservation Plan, volumes 1 and 2
10) Stephens, G R 1985 'Military Aqueducts in Roman Britain'. The Archaeological Journal 142, 216-36 (226, site number 29)
11) Charlesworth, D 1975. 'The Commandant's House, Housesteads', Archaeologia Aeliana 5th series 3, 17-42
12) Beaumont, P, 2008. 'Water supply at Housesteads Roman fort, Hadrian's Wall: the case for rainfall harvesting', Britannia 39, 59-84
13) Platell, A, 2012. Housesteads Fort Northumberland interpretation panels: archaeological monitoring. Unpublished Archaeological Services Durham University report (report 2878)
14) Daniels, C M, 1980. Housesteads North Rampart 1978-9, in University of Durham and University of Newcastle upon Tyne Archaeological Reports, number 3, pages 9-10
15) Dungworth, D, 2001. Metal Working Evidence from Housesteads Roman Fort, Northumberland. Centre for Archaeology Report 109/2001 (English Heritage)
16) Clapham, A, 1988. Housesteads Fort 1984 - The Wooden Artifacts from Contexts H20/10/42 and H20/10/48. Ancient Monuments Laboratory Report 188/88
17) Clapham, A, 1988. Housestead Fort, Hadrians Wall, Northumberland: interim report. Ancient Monuments Laboratory report 186/88
18) This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 January 2021 licensed under the Open Government Licence [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/]
18a) Field Investigators Comments Keith Blood/09-FEB-1987/RCHME: Housesteads Survey
18b) Research on Hadrian's Wall, by Eric Birley (1961) p178-84
18c) Handbook to the Roman Wall with the Cumbrian coast and outpost forts, by J Collingwood Bruce; edited and enlarged by Charles Daniels (1987) p138-55, 334
18d) J G Crow and A Rushworth, 1984. National Trust Archaeological Survey. Housesteads Roman fort and its environs : survey and analysis of the archaeological deposits
18e) James Crow, 1995. English Heritage book of Housesteads
18f) Oblique aerial photograph reference number NMR NY 7968/146 (17698/26) 13-MAR-2002
18g) Oblique aerial photograph reference number NMR NY 7968/144 (19857/35) 04-MAY-2000
18h) Oblique aerial photograph reference number CUCAP (CLY13) 17-MAY-1980
18i) Britannia 39 (2008) 59-84 (P Beaumont)
18j) McGowan, P, Crow, J, Rushworth, A and Renshaw, J , 2002. Housesteads Roman Fort: Conservation Plan (Volumes 1 & 2)
18k) James Crow, 2004. Houseteads: a fort and garrison on Hadrian's Wall