Hunnum

Hunnum (also known as Onnum, and with the modern name of Halton Chesters) was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall located north of the modern-day village of Halton, Northumberland in North East England [1]. It was the fifth fort on Hadrian's Wall and is situated about 7.5 miles west of Vindobala fort [1]. The site of the fort is bisected by the B6318 Military Road [1]. The original fort was built between 122 and 126 AD with a rectangular plan measuring 460 feet north to south by 410 feet east to west [1]. A dedicatory slab from the west gate of the fort tells us that the Legio VI Victrix were responsible for the initial building work [1]. The fort was initially garrisoned, probably, by a cohort of 500 partly mounted troops [1]. In the third century it held a regiment of cavalry transferred from Arbeia fort, the Ala I Pannoniorum Sabiniana, also called Ala Sabiniana [1]. The field north of the Military Road containing the northern section of the fort was first ploughed in 1827, and a fine bath-house was found [1].