Huddersfield in Roman Times
By Ian A. Richmond

PEACE BEHIND HADRIAN’S FRONTIER WALL A.D. 125-300

SUMMARY OF EVENTS
With the completion of Hadrian’s reforms in A.D. 125 comparative peace fell over the Huddersfield District. It is true that later in the century energetic campaigns took place further north, when Scotland was re-occupied in or about A.D. 140, evacuated in A.D. 155, and occupied again from A.D. 158 until about A.D. 180. Also in and before A.D. 209-11 the Emperor Severus found it necessary to reorganise the frontier in Britain. In A.D. 155, as inscriptions show, troubles affected forts as far south as Ribchester, Ilkley, and even Brough in Derbyshire. But generally these wars or the rumours of them did not hinder much the steady growth of civilisation which for long had taken strong root in the Midlands and in the south. Yet evidence is scarce for this undisturbed course of events, and, when collected, only makes possible visional sketch of the history of the Huddersfield District at this time. Excavation is needed to provide greater results.

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