What is recorded here

Milecastle 38 stands beside Hotbank Farm as a scattered chain of robber trenches, yet it birthed the famous joint inscription naming Hadrian and Aulus Platorius Nepos. That stone arrived in two broken pieces across decades, forcing later minds to bridge the gap between emperor and governor. The castle itself remained compact, with a short axis, a south-western room and an eastern causeway, while its two turrets faded into earth or disappeared entirely. What survives is not grandeur but a name, preserved through loss and rebirth.

Milecastle 38 is shown as a archaeological place on the public map of Northumberland. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

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