Tristan Hughes

Yeah, makes sense.

Is it Tyr?

Do you think most soldiers in places like Chester's and other forts along Hadrian's Wall, do you think most of them would have joined a cult or two?

No.

There we go.

So we've come a quite a lot already, haven't we?

With the life, you know, life on Hadrian's Wall and how to survive.

I guess you mentioned a bit about the kind of traders as well, because there's that famous Palmyra and Beratis.

Is he a flag seller or a flag carrier?

We don't know, do we?

But you've got people from Syria there as traders, not just coming back and forth.

So interesting.

So many other things we could talk about.

I will ask quickly about, well, we are recording this interview in December when the days are very, very short and it gets dark very, very quickly.

Do you have any idea how people living along Hadrian's Wall would have thought about that?

You know, the changing of the seasons, being somewhere so far away from their homelands, you know, so far north, where, you know, during this time of the year, you don't get much sunlight.

Okay, fair enough.

Maybe I'm thinking of Syria and places like that.

very much so a couple more questions before we completely wrap up we've talked a bit about the settlements nearby and i think i'm going to ask you a bit more about your particular work on core bridge in our next bonus chat in a bit and your work there so stay tuned for that but i would also like to ask about one thing i remember doing an interview with um duncan keenan jones recently about aqueducts and he actually mentioned how there are a lot of aqueducts along hadrian's wall that begin north of hadrian's wall

So can you paint us a bit of a picture of that?