Objects found inside and near the fort reveal wide trading links and a comfortable military and domestic life.

Pottery found on this site includes Samian ware, an orange-red fine ware from France, and tall vessels (amphorae) for carrying wine and olive oil from the Mediterranean.
(Drawing by Sue White) © English Heritage  Glimpses of military and domestic life are provided by many finds, including fragments of a cavalryman’s helmet and many elaborate brooches.(Drawing by Sue White) © English Heritage
 Finds from Caister have provided us with a vivid picture of life and trade between the fort and the wider Roman world.  There is a cobbled surface which is part of a road from the centre of the fort, which continues through the south gate to a bay on the estuary, where boats were beached for unloading goods.

Finds of personal items such as brooches, beads, bracelets, necklaces, rings and hairpins suggest that women and children lived in the fort, perhaps as families alongside the soldiers.  From the military side of life are parts of old and broken equipment including spearheads, arrowheads and belt buckles.  Clues as to what people ate are provided by charred grain, fish bones, over 10,000 oyster shells, and the bones of cows, hares, foxes, badgers and ducks.