CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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141 km from Birtley to Birtley, about 2 h 10 of riding. It goes by way of The section of Stanegate Roman road from F, Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The, Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry Eas and back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 26 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Of all the Roman sites along Hadrian's Wall, Carrawburgh may be the most mysterious. The fort itself, called Brocolitia, is largely unexcavated, a grassy platform beside the Military Road, but just below it, in a boggy hollow, stands the reconstructed outline of a small temple of Mithras, the soldiers' god, whose cult was popular among the Roman army. The temple was excavated in 1949, and its three altars, now replaced by replicas, the originals being in the Great North Museum in Newcastle, were dedicated by commanders of the garrison. Nearby, a spring dedicated to the water goddess Coventina yielded an astonishing hoard of coins, altars and offerings when it was excavated in the nineteenth century, around thirteen thousand coins in all.
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Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & is where the day begins. Next is The section of Stanegate Roman road from F.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, and on the road through the South Tyne valley it is easy to believe that this is where England quietly runs out of people. Just north of the town, the line of the Stanegate, the Roman road that linked Carlisle with Corbridge, crosses farmland on the flank of the valley. Little of it shows as more than a faint agger, a raised bank under the grass, but it is older than Hadrian's Wall, which runs along the crags a few kilometres to the north.
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The section of Stanegate Roman road from F comes up 25 km in. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
Do not expect a great stone wall here. Near Brampton, on the stretch running out toward the A6071, Hadrian's Wall is mostly a matter of earthworks and imagination: a line in a field, a softened ditch, the long parallel banks of the vallum to the south. In this western sector the wall was originally built of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and centuries of farmers and builders carried off the dressed stones for barns and churches. What survives is listed as part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and once your eye tunes in, you start seeing the line everywhere.
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51 km in you reach Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry Eas.
Of all the places where Hadrian's Wall still behaves like a wall, Walltown is one of the most dramatic. The masonry rides the crest of the Great Whin Sill, a sheet of hard dark dolerite that pushed up through the surrounding rock about three hundred million years ago and then weathered into a line of cliffs facing north. The Roman engineers simply put their wall on top of the cliff, so the stones rise and fall with the crags, dipping into gaps the locals call nicks and climbing out again. Stand up there on a windy day and look north towards the empty country of Northumberland and you understand exactly why they chose the line.
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Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry Eas, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
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back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through The section of Stanegate Roman road from F.
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back through The section of Stanegate Roman road from F comes up 127 km in. Next is Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &.
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Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & closes the day.
Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & → The section of Stanegate Roman road from F is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The section of Stanegate Roman road from F → Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry Eas is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry Eas → back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → back through The section of Stanegate Roman road from F is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The section of Stanegate Roman road from F → Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.