Vindobala

A Roman auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall at modern Rudchester, Northumberland, covering 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) and measuring 157 by 117 metres. The fourth fort west along the Wall, it housed Cohors I Frisiavonum, troops recruited from the coastal Low Countries. The fort was destroyed by fire in the late 2nd century, rebuilt, abandoned by the late 3rd century, then reoccupied around 370 AD until the end of Roman rule. In 1844, five altars dedicated to Mithras were found nearby, evidence of a 3rd-century Mithraeum that was deliberately destroyed in the 4th century. Today only the outline of the defences is visible in the fields.