Dr. Francis McIntosh

And it's the same at houses.

We have a hospital building.

It wasn't because we found, you know, a thing that says the doctor's in and, you know, inscribed on the door.

It's looking at what is most likely and what some of the things that the army might need and what can we see in other forts across the empire.

And Bird Oswald, you know, Tony Wilmot's found that there.

because it's more permanent so the record you know it remained in the record there'd be similar structures elsewhere you know as well as outside sort of marching grounds and things but it's very easy to say oh that's a flat bit of ground outside the fort yeah that's probably where they'd marched and the training like um what's that fort that's like on the in the hard knots yeah i was literally you know what i was actually going to say i went to hard knot roman fort in the lake district a few months ago and like beautiful and then there's that large like flat plain which people say that's the parade ground i don't

I mean, it's a bit of flat ground, isn't it?

You know, I'm sure they did it.

They use it for that.

But whether they, you know, designated the training ground, you know, and it's the same with people are always desperate to find equivalents of amphitheatre.

Something once there's a hollow in the ground.

So I like being an archaeologist and studying the wall because there's lots we know and there's lots we don't know.

But we can kind of join the gap with them sometimes by making, you know, educated suggestions based on our evidence and our understanding of people and society.

Oh, it's a whole other day.

I'm not putting any money on anyone.

I don't want to, you know, get taken out on the way home.

Yeah, absolutely.

So obviously the wall was built by the legionary troops, not the guys who stationed on it, which is the auxiliary troops.

But yes, you would be expected to do repairs and we see that.

So, you know, Hadrian's Wall, we say it's been built about 122.