Recent excavations in Carlisle have revealed significant evidence about life in the Roman city - arguably the last such community at this extremity of the Empire, and the equivalent of an outlier in the Nile Valley or the upper Euphrates.
Revealing something of this westernmost section of the Wall is interesting as I think, from my visits there in past years, that although the line of the wall has been ascertained there is nothing visible above ground of the Roman structure until Carlisle itself is reached.
The archaeological work is reported upon in an article from the BBC News website and it can be seen at Hadrian's Wall section discovered in Drumburgh dig
There is more about the location of the Wall at this point and about the post-Roman history of its remains from Wikipedia at Drumburgh
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