Life and Death in Roman Carlisle : Excavations at 107-117 Botchergate, 2015

Life and Death in Roman Carlislemakes an important contribution to the study of burials and identity in the region of Hadrian'sWall.The book presents the results of excavations beneath Cumbria House, a new municipal buildingon Botchergate in the citycentre.In Roman times this was the location of part of a roadside cremation cemetery associated with a fort established by the Roman armyin AD 73.Those buried in this part of the cemetery died in the yearsjust prior to and during the building of Hadrian's Wall, whenLuguvaliumwas emerging as the most important Roman military base and largest urban centre in northwest Britain. As a result of this swift rise in profile, the early settlement-edge funerary enclosures quickly went out of use, being swallowed up and overbuilt by the expanding extramural settlement. Early Roman Carlisle would have boasted a vibrant multicultural population, and this is reflected in its burial evidence.Among the remains of some twenty cremation burials excavated at Cumbria House are the

literature from Roman Britain and the Continent, the authors explore the significance of the new data for our understanding of the make-up of Roman Carlisle's population and the identity of its various garrisons. [Publisher's text]

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