‘Murder’ body found at Hadrian’s Wall was from overseas
What role do iconic landscape assets, such as Hadrian’s wall, play in driving rural business growth? Well there are straightforward tourism impacts, but how much wider do they ripple out? and when an area like the geography around Vindolanda the resurrected Roman settlement is thickly set with them, in this case Housesteads Roman Fort and Once Brewed Visitor Centre and Youth Hostel all within 3 miles of each other, how do they cooperate rather than threaten each other through competition? No easy answers on offer here, but some very interesting questions to consider.
As for the story itself it helps explain the enduring fascination of such heritage assets based both on their geographies and the stories that underpin them:
A child who was possibly murdered at one of Britain’s most important Roman sites 1,800 years ago came from the Mediterranean, an expert said today.
The discovery implies the young victim was either a child slave or the son or daughter of a soldier serving on Hadrian’s Wall – giving more weight to the theory that they brought their families with them to the wilds of Northumberland.
The skeleton was found two years ago in a shallow pit in the corner of a barrack room floor at Vindolanda Roman fort.