Ceramics Courtyard, Cumbria Institute of Art and Design, Carlisle, Cumbria. Archaeological Evaluation Report

Oxford Archaeology North (OA North) was commissioned by Swarbrick Associates on
behalf of the Cumbria Institute of the Arts to undertake an archaeological evaluation on the
campus of the Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle (NY 40370 57290). The work took
place following an application for scheduled monument consent and planning permission
to roof over a courtyard between existing buildings. The fieldwork was undertaken in June
2004.
The College is situated in an area which has been identified as being of high archaeological
importance and is statutorily protected as a Scheduled Monument (County Sites and
Monuments Record 5782, Scheduled Monument 28484). The main college building is
situated between the line of Hadrian’s Wall and the probable course of the associated
Vallum, c200m to the south-east of the Wall. It is also only approximately 60m north-east
of the north-eastern defences of the Roman fort of Stanwix, the largest fort on Hadrian’s
Wall.