CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 118 km round trip from Greenhead - roughly 1 h 37 in the saddle. On the way it passes Brown Moor Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632, Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7 and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Brown Moor Roman temporary camp.
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 comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632.
East of Hexham, the Roman frontier crosses gentler country, a rolling landscape of fields, hedges and small woods north of the Tyne valley. Here the Wall itself has mostly disappeared, its stones long since recycled into farmhouses, field walls and the eighteenth-century Military Road that runs along its line. But the vallum, the broad ditch with mounds on either side that marked the southern edge of the military zone, survives in places as a clear earthwork across the fields, and walkers on the Hadrian's Wall Path follow it for miles. This section is part of the same World Heritage site as the dramatic crags further west.
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about 40 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7.
Hadrian's Wall begins its life not on a windswept crag but in the streets of Newcastle, and wall mile 7 runs through the western suburbs around Benwell and Denton, a few kilometres from the city centre. The Romans numbered the miles westward from the fort at Wallsend, and in this stretch the line of the Wall follows the ridge now taken by the West Road. Most of it lies under houses and tarmac, but fragments surface where you least expect them, which is half the fun.
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Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through 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.
back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp comes up about 99 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and closes the day.
Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and → Brown Moor Roman temporary camp is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brown Moor Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 → Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7 is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 7 → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 → back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brown Moor Roman temporary camp → Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.