Roman Forts

The reconstructed gatehouse at Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields.

View toward reconstructed Barrack Rooms

Courtyard in the reconstructed Commanding Officer's building.

Reconstructed Commanding Officer's Residence, Arbeia Roman Fort.

Reconstructed Commanding Officer's Residence, Arbeia Roman Fort.

Reconstructed Commanding Officer's Residence, Arbeia Roman Fort.

Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields, UK.

Reconstructed barrack room, Arbeia Roman Fort

Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields, UK.

Steps leading down to the strong room where soldiers pay and the legion's standards would have been kept.

Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields, UK.

Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields, UK.

D M VICTORIS NATIONE MAVRVM ANNORVM XX LIBERTVS NVMERIANI EQITIS ALA I ASTVRVM QVI PIANTISSIME PROSEQVTVS EST "To the spirits of the departed and Victor, of the Moorish nation, twenty years old, freedman of Numerianus, a trooper of the First Wing of Asturians, who most devotedly conducted [his burial]." (RIB 1064) At Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields.

D M REGINA LIBERTA ET CONIVGE BARATES PALMYRENVS NATIONE CATVALLAVNA AN XXX "To the spirits of the departed and Regina, freedwoman and wife of Barates of Palmyra, a Catuvellaunian by race, thirty years old." (RIB 1065) At Arbeia Roman Fort.

IMP CAES DIVI SEVER NEPOS DIVI MGNI ANTONINI FIL M AVREL SEVERVS ..................... PIVS FELIX AVG PONTIF MAX TRIB POT PP COS AQVAM VISBVS MIL COH V GALLO IN DVXIT CVRATE MRIO VALERIANO LEG EIVS PR PR Translation:- The Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Pius Felix Augustus, grandson of the deified Severus, son of Antoninus the Great, pontifex maximus, with tribunician power, father of his country, consul, brought in this supply of water for the use of the soldiers of the Fifth Cohort of Gauls, under the charge of Marius Valerianus, his propraetorian legate. RIB 1060 - Aqueduct dedication to Severus Alexander dated 222AD The presence of the Gallic infantry unit, Cohors V Gallorum, at South Shields is attested in this dedicatory inscription dated to 222AD, which celebrates the completion of the new fort aqueduct (vide supra).