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For more than twenty miles down the coast of the Solway in north-west Cumbria, the northern frontier of the Roman empire, constructed under the orders of the emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, consisted of a turf and timber fortlet every mile with two stone towers between each fortlet – a military installation every 300 metres. This repli­cated the system on Hadrian’s Turf Wall, with intervening forts but without the continuous barri­er.

This book, written in honour of Richard Bellhouse, examines the Solway frontier in detail, and includes a new, complete schedule of the military installations.

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Since the sixteenth century the inscribed and sculptured stones found in and around the Roman fort at Maryport have been lovingly collected by successive generations of the Senhouse family, and kept in the family home at Netherhall until their transfer to the Senhouse Roman Museum in 1990.

This book, a collection of essays in memory of the late Professor Mike Jarrett, explores some of the questions prompted by the Roman discoveries at Maryport.

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How to order your copy

Romans on the Solway (ISBN 1-873124-39-2, hardback, pp. 232 with 47 maps, diagrams and line-drawings, and 27 black and white photo­graphs; 4 colour photographs on the front and back covers) can be obtained through bookshops or internet book-sellers, or directly from the Senhouse Museum Trust, price £20.00 post-free (£17.50 post-free to Friends of the Senhouse Roman Museum and to members of Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society).

Roman Maryport (ISBN 1-873124-22-8, hardback, pp. 168 with 16 maps, diagrams and line-drawings, and 40 black and white photographs; 3 colour photographs on the front and back covers) can be obtained through bookshops or internet book-sellers, or directly from the Senhouse Museum Trust, price £15.00 post-free (£12.50 post-free to Friends of the Senhouse Roman Museum and to members of THE Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society).

Click here for an order form which can be printed, completed and posted to: Hugh Thomson, Low Murrah, Berrier, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 0XD (tel: 017684-84230)