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A brand new podcast is out now, which you can listen to here.

On last week's episode we brought you an interview with Dr Saskia Stevens from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. She's been leading a team which has discovered evidence of a Roman army camp outside the borders of the Roman empire.

Patreon supporters can now watch the slightly-extended interview with Dr Stevens.

How do you think Roman borders may have operated and what was the role of the military presence north of the frontier? Give us your thoughts in the comments below.

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Lorna Dryden

You all are so dang smart!!! I’ve worked in healthcare for 45 years and have literally saved lives but I’m not that smart lol

Leitchy

Very interesting.

Maurits

It think it’s pretty smart of you to start saving lives!

Maurits

I live close to these sites and let me tell you we amateur landscape archeologists have been scanning the LiDAR images for YEARS trying to find these camps. Bcs we assumed there had to be more of course. I’ve seen the sites of this new one and there’s no way we would have found them by simply visually checking the LiDAR maps so I’m very interested to learn how they found them.

Nigel Scott

I happen to be re-reading Rosemary Sutcliffe's Eagle of the Ninth trilogy at the moment. Those books paint a vivid picture of the Roman forts and camps beyond Hadrian's Wall and even beyond the Antonine Wall.

Alana Tolstad

I love listening to professionals who know their stuff!

Eelco Kruidenier

Nice to have some archaeology from my home country on Time Team. I am hoping for more in the future.

Barry Jones

Very interesting. There are so many locations that this could be applied to. It will be interesting to see what else comes from these findings. Thanks for the interview ing guys. What will you feature next in the continuing story

Wolfgang Zenker

I can think of two reasons why that camp might have been there: Either the Romans tried to keep an area adjacent to their borders free from settlement, so potential attackers wouldn't have a base within a short distance to the border, or it could have been used during a punitive expedition into hostile territory. Since the surprise find of a battlefield now called the "Battle of the Harzhorn" we know that these could go hundreds of kilometers deep outside the limes.

Dyana Mason

Thank you for a good discussion!