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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329 km from Bardon Mill to Bardon Mill, about 4 h 23 of riding. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6, Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6.
If the Wall was the barrier you could see, the vallum was the barrier you were not supposed to cross. This is a great flat-bottomed ditch, about six metres wide, with mounds of earth on either side, and it ran along the south of the Wall for most of its length, forming a kind of military zone behind the frontier. Nobody is quite sure of its purpose, though the usual theory is that it marked the rear boundary of the area and controlled the movement of people and goods. At Benwell, within Newcastle, the vallum has one of its best-known features, a stone causeway that allowed the road to cross the ditch near the fort gate, a neat piece of Roman engineering that came to light in the twentieth century.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6 comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail.
The Solway Firth narrows at Bowness-on-Solway, a small village of whitewashed cottages on a low headland, and this is where Hadrian's Wall ended, or rather began, at its western end.
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about 168 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6, 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.
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Back at Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp. That is the ride.
Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6 is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6 → Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail is 118 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled rail → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6 is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6 → Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.