Roman life on Hadrian’s Wall

LiveScience recently had a lengthy article which drew together recent archaeological and interpretational work on life on and alongside Hadrian’sWall. This provides a good overview of what has been established about life on and alongside the Wall, before it was actually constructed, during its heyday, and in the post-Roman era. Whether you have visited Hadrian’s Wall or not it is a valuable summary or introduction.

The article can be seen at New discoveries at Hadrian's Wall are changing the picture of what life was like on the border of the Roman Empire

The type of material that the archaeological work has yielded includes leather shoes and other items. An international project to investigate its use by the Romans, studying leather artefacts from Hadrian’s Wall, the Netherlands and Syria, and based in north east England is introduced by an article in Archaeology News online which can be read at Exploring the secrets of the Roman Empire’s leather economy