ROMAN LIFE ON HADRIANS WALL (PB)

Pioneering merchants and traders, soldiers’ wives and children, and slaves are among the many civilians who settled alongside the Roman army at Hadrian’s Wall. These people’s lives can be traced through the things they left behind. Children lost socks and wooden swords when they played; wives and daughters wore fancy hairpins that fell out when they went to the bathhouses. Hunting dogs were fed and bred for soldiers’ sport, and slaves kept the hypocausts burning. Roman Life on Hadrian’s Wall pieces together wide-ranging archaeological evidence to reveal these people’s stories.