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 142 km round trip from Haydon Bridge - roughly 2 h 21 in the saddle. On the way it passes Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and, Watchclose Roman temporary camp, Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be and back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 29 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
A couple of kilometres west of Chollerford, the Military Road climbs onto open moorland, and at a place called Limestone Corner, the most northerly point of Hadrian's Wall, the Romans gave up. Their ditch in front of the Wall was supposed to be cut through solid rock here, and you can still see where they started: huge blocks of whinstone split by wedges and left lying in the ditch, with holes for the levers still visible, as if the workers had just walked away for lunch. Brown Moor, close by, is the site of one of several Roman temporary camps in this stretch, where soldiers camped while building the Wall or moving through the frontier zone, their outlines barely visible in the rough grass.
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Brown Moor Roman temporary camp is where the day begins. Next is Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and.
A Syrian archer unit once garrisoned this hilltop. Carvoran was the Roman fort at the junction of the Wall with the Maiden Way, a road that ran north towards Scotland, and at one time the cohors I Hamiorum, an auxiliary unit raised in the city of Hama in Syria, was stationed here, men who had marched or sailed across the empire to guard a wet, windy ridge in Northumberland. A bronze grain measure found at Carvoran, the Carvoran modius, carries a long inscription that mentions the emperor Hadrian, and it gives a glimpse of how the garrison was supplied. The fort is mostly a grassy platform now, but the position, on a ridge with views over the Tyne Gap, shows why it was chosen.
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Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchclose Roman temporary camp.
East of Carlisle, between the villages of Brampton and Wetheral, the countryside rolls gently towards the Pennines, with green fields, hedges and patches of woodland. Somewhere in these fields lie the faint traces of Watchclose, a Roman temporary camp, one of many marching camps built by soldiers on campaign or during the construction of Hadrian's Wall. These camps were enclosed by a ditch and bank and used for a night or a season, and today they are often visible only from the air or as slight undulations in the grass. Watchclose is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
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about 41 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchclose Roman temporary camp. Next is Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be.
The small Roman fort at Drumburgh sat on a low rise above the Solway marshes, guarding a stretch of Hadrian's Wall where the frontier ran along the edge of the firth towards its western end at Bowness. Nothing much survives of the fort itself, but its stones did not go far. Drumburgh Castle, a fortified farmhouse built in the sixteenth century by the Dacre family, is clearly made from reused Roman masonry, and you can still pick out dressed blocks and even the odd carved fragment set into its walls.
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Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be, about halfway. Next is back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp.
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Read the complete Watchclose Roman temporary camp write-up.
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back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp sits at 107 km, about halfway. Next is back through Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and write-up.
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back through Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and comes up about 123 km into the recorded legs. Next is Brown Moor Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brown Moor Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Brown Moor Roman temporary camp closes the day.
Brown Moor Roman temporary camp → Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and → Watchclose Roman temporary camp is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchclose Roman temporary camp → Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall be → back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchclose Roman temporary camp → back through Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and → Brown Moor Roman temporary camp is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.