Roman Rudchester

Rudchester has grown from the Roman fort Vindobala and its vicus. The remains of the Fort and Mithraeum (1844) are covered, but the Giant's Grave (1766) is still visible.

We have an A3 photocopied map titled "Plan of Rudchester Fort's Excavations". I have not been able to find its source, or details of some of the excavations. It lists 9 dates from the discovery of the Giant's Grave in 1766 to the excavations for the water supply across the fort in 1989, repeated in 2002 and then in 2022 to renew the pipes.

The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne was founded in 1813, and has publised a variety of articles about Rudchester in their journal, Archaeologia Aeliana. The contents are most easily searchable through the Archaeology Data Service website. I have found 11 articles so far which reference Rudchester or Vindobala:

(1) Observations on Five Roman Altars, found in the Summer of 1844, at Rutchester, the ancient Vindobala, and the Fourth Station per lineam Valli
From : Archaeologia Aeliana series 1, volume 4, page 5-14
Publication Date: 1855
Author(s): John Bell, Thomas Hodgson

(2) Excavations at Rudchester
From : Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne volume 10, number 9, page 81-82
Publication Date: 1901
Author(s): F Haverfield

(3) Roman Rudchester
From : Archaeologia Aeliana series 4, volume 1, page 93-120
Publication Date: 1925
Author(s): W Parker Brewis

(4) The temple of Mithras at Rudchester
From : Archaeologia Aeliana series 4, volume 32, page 176-219
Publication Date: 1954
Author(s): John Pearson Gillam, Iain MacIvor Eric B Birley

(5) Interim report on excavations at the Roman fort of Rudchester, 1972
From : Archaeologia Aeliana series 5, volume 1, page 81-85
Publication Date: 1973
Author(s): T G Newman, R Martin Harrison, John Pearson Gillam

(6) Delineation of the Vallum at Vindobala, Hadrian's Wall, by Shear-Wave Seismic Refraction Survey
From : Archaeometry, 32: 71-82
Publication Date: 1990
Author(s): N R Goulty, J P C Gibson, J G Moore, H Welfare

(7) The Roman Fort at Rudchester. An analytic field survey
From : Archaeologia Aeliana series 5, volume 19, page 25-31
Publication Date: 1991
Author(s): Keith Blood, M Bowden

(8) Completion of the Seismic Refraction Survey to Locate the Vallum at Vindobala, Hadrian's Wall
From : Archaeometry, 36: 327-335
Publication Date: 1994
Author(s): N R Goulty, A L Hudson

(9) The Roman Frontier from Wallsend to Rudchester Burn Reviewed
From : Archaeologia Aeliana series 5, volume 26, page 17-37
Publication Date: 1998
Author(s): Julian Bennett

(10) Plastered Walls at Rudchester? The Roman Place-Names Vindovala and Nemetovala
From : Archaeologia Aeliana series 5, volume 30, page 49-51
Publication Date: 2002
Author(s): Andrew Breeze

(11) The Vallum and the forts of Hadrian’s Wall
From : Archaeologia Aeliana series 6, volume 1, page 95-126
Publication Date: 2022
Author(s): David J. Breeze and Erik P. Graafstal

(12) Per Lineam Valli has an interesting interactive webpage on Roman inscriptions found in Rudchester.