What is recorded here

Beaumont camp and Burgh Castle stand inside wall miles 70 and 71, where Hadrian's Wall cut across Cumberland. The fort, camps and castle marker a military district rather than a single dramatic battlefield. Men may have marched past beach grass, built roads, guarded trade or waited for orders that never came. The wall still draws a line through memory, even when its purpose has blurred into distance.

The National Heritage List for England records Burgh by Sands Roman fort, Beaumont camp, Burgh Castle and Hadrian's Wall from boundary west of churchyard, Beaumont to Burgh Head in wall miles 70 and 71 as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

The Roman fort at Burgh by Sands was built by the Roman army during the 2nd century AD as part of the defensive system along Hadrian's Wall. It is important as a key archaeological site that provides insight into Roman military life and frontier defense in northern England.

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