Roman sites in CumbriaCumbria, England

Spectacular fort ruins commanding the Eskdale pass.

A red sandstone castle beside the grassy banks of Brocavum, a Roman fort at a crossing of the Eamont.

Best-preserved Hadrian's Wall fort in Cumbria.

Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house, also known as Walls Castle

Turret 52a east of Banks, the best-preserved turret on the western stretch of Hadrian's Wall that was first built of turf.

Milecastle 49 above the Irthing gorge, where a mile-long run of Wall, first turf and then stone, heads west by Birdoswald fort.

Footings of a Roman signal tower built before Hadrian's Wall and later tied into it at an odd 45-degree angle, near Banks.

Tallest surviving piece of Hadrian's Wall, a short length near Banks standing up to 3 metres, though its facing was largely rebuilt in the 1800s.

Pair of stone turrets on Hadrian's Wall west of Birdoswald, where digging at Leahill found the straw floor and hearths its soldiers used.

Almost a kilometre of Hadrian's Wall dropping from Gilsland to the Irthing, ending at the massive abutment of the Roman bridge below Birdoswald.