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Housesteads Roman Fort
The best preserved fort on Hadrian's Wall is Housesteads. It might have been called Vercovicium in Roman times.
The via princeps was the main road that ran through the fort. It was always busy with soldiers and traders.
The Headquarters Building on the via princeps was probably the most important building in the fort. Clerks worked on their paperwork here; the garrisons wages and weapons were locked away here. Soldiers who lost or damaged their weapons could be heavily fined here.
The latrine or toilets were friendly places. You could sit next to your neighbour and swap the latest gossip.
There was also a bath house outside the walls of the fort
because these buildings caught fire easily.
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