Repair and Consolidation of High Rochester Roman Fort

The Roman Fort at High Rochester was for two centuries the northernmost fort of the Roman Empire and is one of the best preserved archaeological sites within Northumberland National Park. It sits within a landscape of Temporary Camps, the remarkable Petty Knowes Roman cemetery and the major route of Dere Street. It commands a high point in Redesdale and existed within a wider landscape of "native" Romano-British settlements and farmsteads. The Fort may have been sited on a previous Iron Age settlement. The principa...