CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 120 km round trip from Greenhead - roughly 1 h 42 in the saddle. The stops in between: Brown Dikes 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.
Around Haltwhistle the wall country becomes the landscape everyone imagines: the Whin Sill, a long ridge of hard volcanic dolerite, rears up in a series of cliffs facing north, and the Romans used it as a ready-made rampart, running their stone wall along the very top. Between the crags and the road the vallum ditch runs across the fields as a broad, clear trench, and from any high point you can see the whole military system laid out: crag, wall, road and ditch side by side.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is where the day begins. Next is Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp.
Look for a faint rectangle in the rough grass north of the Military Road, a few kilometres west of Chollerford, and you will have found Brown Dikes, one of a cluster of Roman temporary camps on the high ground above the North Tyne. Nothing stands here, no walls or gates, only low earthworks that the grazing sheep have softened over nearly two thousand years. But these camps are among the most evocative traces of the Roman army in Britain, because they mark where soldiers actually slept and worked while the frontier was being built and garrisoned.
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Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp comes up about 19 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.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp comes up about 99 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 is 21 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 19 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 Dikes Roman temporary camp is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brown Dikes Roman temporary camp → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.