Piercebridge Roman Fort

Piercebridge Roman Fort is a scheduled ancient monument situated in the village of Piercebridge on the banks of the River Tees in modern-day County Durham [1]. There were Romans here from about AD 70 until at least the early 5th century [1]. There was an associated vicus and bath house at Piercebridge, and another vicus and a villa south of the river at Cliffe [1]. The fort was situated on Dere Street, the major Roman road linking York to the north [1]. To the east of the fort in Tofts Field there is a vicus which began in the 1st century AD and survived into the early 5th century: a civilian settlement outside the fort's boundaries for providers of goods and services to the fort itself [1]. A 1973 dig found a 3rd-century rectangular building with hypocaust [1].