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Carlisle, Hadrian's Wall & Borderlands
Birdoswald Roman Fort
Birdoswald Roman Fort was one of sixteen frontier
forts on the Roman Wall. Later it also played its part in the notorious
Border Raids when a ‘Bastle’ house was erected to protect
the inhabitants from the notorious ‘Border Reiver families’.
Originally the fort would have been home to legionnaires - professional
Roman soldiers who built the 73 mile stretch of wall from Wallsend
in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west.
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