Uncovering Roman Carlisle

[@candicevader]

Thank you for these videos. I'll never make it to England but at least I can watch the work being done.

[@barbaraprest783]

Very enjoyable thank you

[@MichaelAKatulka]

Excellent program

[@ronaldlaverick829]

Fantastic Peter!

[@TheParishioner]

Very interesting video. Thank you creating and sharing it.

[@charliemaier456]

Super informative and interesting as always. Thank you.

[@romanhistorywalks6526]

Thanks

[@museonfilm8919]

The stone heads are an amazing find!

[@romanhistorywalks6526]

They are, I was away on the day they were found but luckily got to see them when they returned for filming

[@sianwilliams2271]

Excellent overview of the excavations, very informative. Fascinating that the Severan bathhouse was roofed using North African techniques. Also loved the 'paw identification' shot and the random dinosaur someone had brought to oversee work on the Hadrianic levels! Thanks Pete, hope you enjoy the excavations this year.

[@romanhistorywalks6526]

I’m hoping to be back in some capacity

[@KirstenMcKenzie]

Great footage and commentary, Pete.

[@romanhistorywalks6526]

Thanks, a labour of love and lots of voice retakes

[@Paulftate]

​ just relish the fact you're not using a pencil and eraser🤘

[@lexiisbritish9894]

This is my city 😭 crazy to think that people lived here so long ago

[@nicholassullivan8752]

Has an artists impression been made of the bath house using excavation results and projection.

[@romanhistorywalks6526]

@@nicholassullivan8752 I’ve seen a few early interpretations but nothing yet. The bath house is badly robbed but there’s enough evidence to bring it back to life. The next dig will hopefully confirm the outside walls.

[@nicholassullivan8752]

@@romanhistorywalks6526 Thank you.

[@Paulftate]

Walking in Jerusalem just like John

[@christopheraliaga-kelly6254]

A pity you didn't have time to mention that the fort to the north was called PETRIANA as it was the base of a cavalry cohort, or ALA, the ALA PETRIANA. As it was the largest Fort on the Wall, it could have been the Headquarters for the Wall. That would explain why Septimius Severus and family based themselves there. Classicus Dio records an amusing series of incidents there. The emperor was told by his astrologer to avoid anything black on one day! When he went to sacrifice at a local temple, he was most disconcerted to find that all the animals assembled for sacrifice were black! When the angry emperor turned on his heel to leave, the animals followed him! Then a soldier from a nearby Fort turned up with a decorated branch for the Emperor, Several was outraged to find he was almost black in skin and ordered "Get him out of my sight!" Interestingly, the wall-fort to the west was garrisoned by an African cohort!

[@romanhistorywalks6526]

@@christopheraliaga-kelly6254 it’s mentioned in the first minute of the video, I tend to use Uxcelodunum as that’s the name used on the IIlam pan which names the western forts on HW

[@MarkAbRobert-jv6it]

Severus was always credited with the building of the stone wall. It was known to the Britons as the "Gwal Sevyr" I've never seen any book prior to the 20th century that credits Hadrian with the building of the stone wall.