Tristan Hughes

got poi access to fairly good medical care but it's all still relative yeah gosh that's very interesting well you mentioned religion there in passing if you're one of these soldiers on these these communities on the wall were there any gods that you were more likely to pray to than others were there any particular gods that we know from archaeology were more popular than others for communities along the wall

So kind of like Aquasoulis with the Roman baths at Bath.

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.