08-10-2011, 11:37 PM
I'm just thinking if that was the portion of wall where they afterwards built the re-constructed section, for my very good friend Tony Drake worked on that area.
There was if I remember correctly the place where it was discovered that a turf type barrier went south from the wall towards the river, never heard the outcome of that so could it have been a later defence for the vicus.
For just behind and to the south when the factory units were being built in the 70s I found thousands of red tiles in the trenches that the contractors were making just west of the fort for the new building walls, archaeologists said they did not consider them to be Roman but then it was only a glance that they made so who knows.
There was if I remember correctly the place where it was discovered that a turf type barrier went south from the wall towards the river, never heard the outcome of that so could it have been a later defence for the vicus.
For just behind and to the south when the factory units were being built in the 70s I found thousands of red tiles in the trenches that the contractors were making just west of the fort for the new building walls, archaeologists said they did not consider them to be Roman but then it was only a glance that they made so who knows.
Brian Stobbs
