05-06-2008, 09:44 PM
Yuri I don't know if it will be of any help to you to consider the milecastle garrisons, for these particular small fortlets would have held around 40 to 60 men. I'm sure indeed that those on both sides of our fort may have been made up with garrisons from the fort itself, in this way we are shifting anything from 80 to 100 men out of the fort. Then if we assume a small amount of troopers on the other side of the bridge, we can almost collectively say we have a Cohort in and around the Pons Aelius. This is just one aspect we have to consider about the garrisons on Hadrians' Wall, and with the distances between forts being 6 or 7 miles many troops would never be in their forts at all.
Brian Stobbs
