Why this ride
64 km from Brampton to Brampton, about 1 h 05 of riding. On the way it passes Burnhead Roman temporary camp, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel and back through Burnhead Roman temporary camp.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar and Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 64 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 05
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar
Building Hadrian's Wall took an enormous amount of stone, and the Romans quarried it wherever they could find good sandstone near the line. In the woods and crags around Banks and Lanercost, east of Brampton, several of these quarries survive, and on the rock faces the soldiers who worked them left their marks: names, unit symbols and short inscriptions carved into the stone nearly two thousand years ago. Coombe Crag, near the Wall here, is one of the best known, with names scratched by men who were probably bored, tired and far from home. Finding them takes a bit of searching and some imagination, as the letters are worn and lichen-covered, but there is something deeply human about them.
Read the complete Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar is where the day begins. Next is Burnhead Roman temporary camp.
2. Burnhead Roman temporary camp
The Stanegate is the Roman road that came before the Wall, and Burnhead lies close to its line. Before Hadrian's engineers began their great work in AD 122, the frontier of Roman Britain ran along this road from Corbridge in the east to Carlisle in the west, guarded by forts at intervals of about a day's march, and the Wall was built a little to the north, along the crags. The camp at Burnhead, which belongs to the temporary camps that armies built on the march, is one of the faint earthworks in this country, a low square of bank and ditch in a field above the Haltwhistle Burn.
Read the complete Burnhead Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Burnhead Roman temporary camp comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
3. Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel
Here the Wall is at its most dramatic. In the central sector of Hadrian's Wall, north of Haydon Bridge and Hexham in Northumberland, the Roman frontier runs along the top of the Whin Sill, a long ridge of hard volcanic rock that breaks the moorland into a series of north-facing cliffs. The Romans built their wall right along the crest, using the natural defences, and the result is a line of stone that rises and falls with the crags like the spine of a great animal. Behind it, to the south, runs the vallum, a broad earthwork ditch with mounds on either side that marked the military zone, still clearly visible across the fields.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 30 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. Next is back through Burnhead Roman temporary camp.
4. back through Burnhead Roman temporary camp
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Burnhead Roman temporary camp write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Burnhead Roman temporary camp, late in the day. Next is Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar.
5. Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar to Burnhead Roman temporary camp
Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar → Burnhead Roman temporary camp is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Burnhead Roman temporary camp to Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel
Burnhead Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel to back through Burnhead Roman temporary camp
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Burnhead Roman temporary camp is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Burnhead Roman temporary camp to Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar
back through Burnhead Roman temporary camp → Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.