Fort on the register after thousands of years
A family links with a Roman fort have been set in legal stone.
Jennifer Du Cane and her family have owned Carrawburgh Fort, between Housesteads and Chesters on Hadrian's Wall, for 100 years.
She inherited the eight acre site from her father in 1972, but had never registered it, until now. The Land Registry is campaigning to get more people to log details of the land they own.
The fort was known in Roman times as Brocolitia. It was built in AD 134 and was home to various garrisons, including the Aquitani, Cugerni and Batavia cohorts.
Up to 500 soldiers at a time were stationed at the fort, many of whom came from the part of the Roman empire that is now Germany.
Harry Charlton, register development manager for Northumberland, said: "Almost 29% of land in Northumberland remains unregistered and I'd urge landowners to get in touch with us."
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