'The men ignored him. They were dressed very oddly in dark grey woollen tunics and knee-length leather breeches. And they were wearing open-toed, calf-length leather sandals.... Roman soldier caligae. Lucius shook his head and rubbed his eyes. Panic clawed at his throat with bone-cold fingers; a creeping realisation traced an icy line up his spine.'
Toilets. Everybody needs them. Two thousand years ago, on Hadrian's Wall at Housesteads Roman Fort, two soldiers set about their business in the latrine. A few metres away from them sat Lucius, dumbfounded by the sight, sounds and smells around him. He too had visited the latrine but for a very different reason...to research life in Roman Britain for his GCSE history exam. Toilets. Everybody needs them.