Contents

• The Background
• The Excavations in Church Chare
• The Early Fort
• The Later Fort
• 'Have you found anything interesting?'
• After the Romans
• The Future
• Thanks

• Location map
• Plan of identified remains
• Reconstructed view of the early defences
• Reconstructed view of the barrack block and officer's quarters

• Introduction
• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6

• Week 7
• Week 8
• Week 9
• Week 10
• Week 11
• Week 12

The Excavations

• Machine stripping
• The Rainbird trench
• The Polytunnels
• Archaeomagnetic dating
• The excavators
• Snow
• Frost
• Working in the snow
• Section through ditch
• Run and get the fire brigade

The Site

• The Officer's quarters, aerial view
• North wall I
• North wall II
• North wall III
• North wall IV
• South wall I
• South wall II
• Tumble from wall
• The latrine
• Drain
• The north-south partition
• The flagged floor
• The early rampart
• The early ditch I
• The early ditch II
• The via sagularis

The Finds

• Samian stamp
• Black-burnished ware sherd
• Coin
• Cheese press
• Quern stone
• Tile stamp (NV)
• Tile with dog paw print

The Views

• The church
• Middle Chare car park
• The Cong Burn
• The Wear valley
• The Parish Centre
• The Consolidated Remains (from the East)
• The Consolidated Remains (from the North)