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Description: | Roman place-name Coria and the site of and remains of, a 1st/2nd century AD Roman fort, which became a 3rd-4th century Roman small town.
The site overlays a late prehistoric enclosed settlement. This comprised a palisaded enclosure with hut circle and may possibly date to the Late Bronze Age or at least the early Iron Age. It was excavated between 1952 and 1953, which revealed a circular enclosure in the form of a small, round-bottomed ditch 60 foot in diameter: it had an entrance on the west, and an eccentrically placed hut, about 21 feet in diameter, to the north. The site resembled the Bleasdale Circle in plan but due to the fact that it had been levelled by the Roman garrison there were no finds.
It has suggested that the Roman name for the fort and town at Corbridge may have been CORIORITUM. An excavation in 1980, to the west of the granaries, located the west rampart of the fort and a probable interval tower. The associated pottery was compatible with a construction-date of c. 90 AD. The rampart was rebuilt several times before being partially levelled (after about 160 AD). Fragmentary timber structures may have been associated with this phase. These features were succeeded by two successive stone buildings. The floor of the first of these yielded late second or early third century pottery. | Subjects: | Defence Hut Circle Civil Religious Ritual And Funerary Town Domestic Fort Palisaded Enclosure Palisaded Settlement Temple | Source: | English Heritage - Viewfinder | Creator: | National Monuments Record | Identifier: | http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk... | Language: | en | Go to resource |
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