The Finds:
Craft and Trade
Army craftsmen
The archaeologists found evidence of army craftsmen making and repairing equipment. In the first fort, leather workers discarded parts of worn out-tents and other leather equipment in a rubbish dump. Wooden off-cuts and other wooden objects from the same dump show carpenters at work. Slightly later, metal workers in the second fort left behind the broken moulds from making flasks decorated with enamel patterns.
Spoon making
In the late Roman settlement there was a workshop making spoons, the only one found so far using composite moulds on any Roman site.
Trade and shopping
There was a thriving local economy. Archaeologists found 175 coins and several weights for measuring out goods for sale. They also identified a pottery shop, stocked with large quantities of imported Samian pottery.