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Alison Fisk

Yesterday I visited Corbridge #Roman Town (Coria). Just south of Hadrian’s Wall, it was the most northerly town in the Empire. The smooth flagged floor of the town’s west granary is still looking good after 1,800 years! 🤩 #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology

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Ardent Archivist

None of our stuff will last that long or that well!

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Juan

Except the nuclear reactor rods...

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Ardent Archivist

Oh god… Don’t you hate being right, sometimes?! 😱

The Dreaded Lurgy

Cramond wasn't a town?

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Alison Fisk

I think it was Roman fort with a settlement (vicus) rather than a full civilian town

sunne

Do you have a YouTube channel we could watch? You always post interesting things.

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Alison Fisk

Thank you so much! That’s an idea!

Saturn

Damn, I hope I still look that cut when I'm 1,800

Meeps Magpie

The granaries used the same hypocaust system as bathhouses? Just in the granaries' cases to keep the grain dry instead of the water/air hot.

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Alison Fisk

For ventilation, the granary floor is raised on low stone walls rather than hypocaust pillars used in heating systems. Here’s a well preserved mullioned ventilator in the wall of the east granary

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Meeps Magpie

Many thanks for explaining 🥰

Alison Fisk

There’s a super little onsite museum where amongst other great finds from the site you can see the Corbridge Hoard; a collection of personal possessions, weapons, and ‘lorica segmentata’ armour buried by a Roman soldier nearly 2000 years ago!

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Alison Fisk

At the site museum you can also see the Corbridge Lion, an impressive piece of sculpture from Roman Corbridge, dated c. 2nd- 3rd century AD. It was made to go on top of a mausoleum, and later adapted as a fountain head

Mary Earnshaw

Wonderful site! And good museum.

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Alison Fisk

Grain was stored on the raised floor which rests on low stone walls above a ventilated basement to keep the grain cool and dry. Here’s a view looking north which shows the low walls more clearly. In my previous pic, they do look rather like hypocaust pillars for a heated floor

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Chris Becke (aka BeckePhysics)

Ah. So more air conditioning than heating? Those Romans knew a thing or two.

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Alison Fisk

Yes indeed! 👍