Dr. Francis McIntosh

So he's identified himself as that.

So maybe, yes, their slaves would be doing the cooking or looking after the horses.

So at Chester's, we have a very nice well right in the centre of the headquarters building, which is very close to the...

Really nice stone phallus, you know.

We'll get to that, don't worry.

And forts needed to have everything they needed inside in case they were being besieged.

So there would always be a water source inside.

And you're going to need a lot of water, particularly if you've got horses to feed.

At Halsteads, we've got some great tanks that are

taking account of the gravity so they're in the bottom corner of the fort and catching that water again getting water would be a huge task you'd be constantly having to make sure you're you've got enough water and your horses but also you need water for not cleaning yourself because you'd be going to the baths into what later but probably cleaning your armor

So there's not been any archaeological investigation that proves that the barracks at Chester's and Sir War's End is the one that's been really properly excavated, much better actually than Chester's, which is the 19th century.

But at Halstead's, that's our real window into what happens in the barracks in the 4th century.

So they have excavated what's the north-eastern quadrant.

It's two rows of barracks.

And they...

originally are one long building with just dividing walls in the middle with eight men in each room.

And then in the fourth century, they changed to being small individual buildings.

They got called chalet barracks because Butlins was very popular when they were being excavated in the 70s and 80s.

But, you know, there's these little ones.

There's the tiniest gap in between them.