View NNE of the E granary with its loading platform beside the main street (Stanegate) at Corbridge Roman Town, Northumberland, England, UK.
View NNE of the E granary with its loading platform beside the main street (Stanegate), Corbridge Roman Site, Northumberland, England, UK. Low stone sleeper walls supported a raised flagged floor. To keep the grain cool & dry air was circulated via narrow vents below the floor & large louvred wooden shutters at a higher level. A line of central columns may have supported an upper storey. The adjacent E & W granaries were surrounded by an enclosure wall & a stone-lined drain to reduce the damp. The loading bays at the S end were protected from the weather by columned porches (porticoes) standing beside the main street (Stanegate). Work began on the granaries around AD 180, but they were not completed until the early C3rd & then remained in use into the C4thAD.
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Location: Corbridge Roman Town, Hexham, Northumberland, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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