CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 163 km round trip from Brampton - roughly 2 h 43 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor, Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so, Wolsty South tower 13b and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor.
On the eastern edge of Carlisle, where the M6 motorway sweeps north towards Scotland, the line of Hadrian's Wall crosses the fields and housing estates in a way that is barely visible. Yet the vallum, the great ditch the Romans dug south of the Wall, can still be traced here as a slight dip in the ground, and this stretch between the motorway and the outskirts of the city is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. It takes some imagination, but standing here you are on the line that marked the edge of the empire for nearly three hundred years.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so.
Between Bowness-on-Solway and Drumburgh, the road follows the shore of the Solway Firth along a strip of land so flat and low that the highest tides cover it, and the line of Hadrian's Wall and its vallum runs just inland, through fields and past farms. This stretch, near Port Carlisle and Glasson, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. Little is visible of the Wall itself, which was robbed for stone long ago, but the vallum and other earthworks can be traced in places by those with a keen eye.
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about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so. Next is Wolsty South tower 13b.
Hadrian's Wall gets the fame, but the Roman frontier did not simply stop at Bowness-on-Solway. Beyond the end of the wall, a chain of milefortlets and towers continued down the Cumbrian coast, watching the Solway Firth for raiders from the north. Wolsty South, tower 13b, was one of them, a small stone watchtower near Silloth on the low, windy coast. There is little to see today, often just a mark in the ground, but the site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listed by UNESCO, and its position tells a story: from here, Roman soldiers looked across the water to the hills of Scotland.
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Wolsty South tower 13b, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor comes up about 142 km into the recorded legs. Next is Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar.
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Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar closes the day.
Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so → Wolsty South tower 13b is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wolsty South tower 13b → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motor → Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.