Segedunum

Segedunum was a Roman fort at modern-day Wallsend, North Tyneside in North East England [1]. The fort lay at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall near the banks of the River Tyne [1]. The fort of Segedunum measured 453 feet from north to south and 393 feet from east to west, covering an area of 4.1 acres [1]. The original garrison of Segedunum is unknown, but in the 2nd century Cohors II Nerviorum was stationed there [1]. In the 3rd and 4th centuries the part-mounted Fourth Cohort of the Lingones occupied the fort, as recorded in the Notitia Dignitatum [1]. Sometime round about 400 AD the fort was abandoned [1]. In 1929 some excavations were carried out which recorded the outline of the fort [1].