Corbridge Roman Fort and Town

Corbridge (Coria), was once a thriving town on the northern frontier of the Roman Empire. It appears to have been built on top of a circular Iron Age enclosure.

AD 85, the Roman army built a series of forts at Corbridge to protect a vital crossroads and bridge and Corbridge would have been a supply route at this time to the legions in Scotland.
105 AD The fort was burnt down (possibly dismantled?)
122 AD Fort was rebuilt to provide support to Hadrian’s Wall.
160 AD after the abandonment of the Antonine Wall elements of the 20th Legion and 6th Legion were stationed here building temples and other structures.
163 AD Fort was abandoned and Corbridge became a garrison town
180 AD (ish) structures were again burnt down
205 AD granaries were rebuilt as one of two main supply bases for Septimus Severus’s expeditions into Scotland
370 repair work on the road through the town was still taking place at this time
420 ish abandoned

After the last fort was abandoned in the middle of the second century AD, a town prospered here for over 250 years.
Corbridge had fine buildings but also many humble houses and workshops. Craftspeople, traders and their families lived and worked here alongside soldiers and travellers passing along important routeways of northern Britain.