The city of Carlisle, England is now being mentioned in the same breath as York and Newcastle when it comes to Roman archaeology thanks to the Millennium dig. The three-year effort has now been documented in a 936-page report.

While thousands of pottery fragments, coins, jewelry items and spearheads were found, it was the "extensive wooden and leather remains – which include posts, shoes and tents – that surprised the archaeologists, leading to a 'wealth of evidence' about the structure of Roman buildings which does not normally survive."