CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 63 km round trip from Bardon Mill - roughly 1 h 03 in the saddle. The stops in between: Throp Roman fortlet, Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum bet and back through Throp Roman fortlet. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 16 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Bean Burn is another of those names that sounds as if it belongs in a children's book, and the Roman camp here is one of the less visible members of the frontier zone along Hadrian's Wall. A temporary camp was a rough overnight enclosure for a column of soldiers, thrown up with a ditch and a bank and abandoned the next morning, and Bean Burn 2 is one of a family of such camps scattered across the moors south of the wall. If you go looking for stone, you will be disappointed. What you will find is open moorland, with a wide sky and the quiet that belongs to a place where the nearest road is a single-track lane.
Read the complete Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp write-up.
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Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp is where the day begins. Next is Throp Roman fortlet.
Throp is a farm name on the edge of Gilsland, in the narrow gap where the River Irthing slips between the northern Pennines and the moors that roll north towards the Scottish border. A small Roman fortlet stood here, close to the Stanegate, the road that ran along the valley before the Wall was built, and it is one of the many features that make up the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. Not much remains to see, but the setting is classic Wall country.
Read the complete Throp Roman fortlet write-up.
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Throp Roman fortlet comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum bet.
Camboglanna is the Roman name of the fort at Castlesteads, and the sound of it has a ring that the present quiet farmland does not. The fort sat on a ridge above the River Irthing, not far from Brampton, and it was one of the garrison posts on the western part of the wall. Little survives above ground, because the site was built over by a country house and gardens in the eighteenth century, but the line of the wall and the vallum, the great ditch behind it, can be traced across the fields nearby.
Read the complete Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum bet write-up.
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about 31 km into the recorded legs you reach Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum bet. Next is back through Throp Roman fortlet.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Throp Roman fortlet write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Throp Roman fortlet, late in the day. Next is Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp. That is the ride.
Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp → Throp Roman fortlet is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Throp Roman fortlet → Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum bet is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum bet → back through Throp Roman fortlet is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Throp Roman fortlet → Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.