Newcastle

What did rocks ever do for the Romans? The answer is pretty much everything, from defining the line of their defences, to providing the materials and implements they depended on. For the Roman Army an understanding of the landscape, its rocks and their resources was not just desirable, it was essential. This Talk is a geoscience-based perspective of the landscape and archaeology of Hadrian's frontier which raises some rarely explored but important questions that have a bearing on our history and the social, political and military narratives that are told.