CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 112 km round trip from Hexham - roughly 1 h 48 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp, Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar and Burnhead Roman temporary camp.
Hadrian's Wall runs for about seventy-three miles across the north of England, from the Solway Firth in the west to the Tyne in the east, built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian after his visit to Britain in 122 AD.
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Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel comes up 16 km in. Next is Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
Haltwhistle likes to call itself the centre of Britain, a claim measured, by one method or another, from the farthest tips of the island, and it does sit in the narrow waist of the country, between the North Sea and the Irish Sea. The town, with about four thousand people, lies in the South Tyne valley, just south of Hadrian's Wall, and it is a good base for exploring the central section of the frontier.
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33 km in you reach Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp. Next is 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.
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Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar, about halfway. Next is 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.
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Burnhead Roman temporary camp sits at 66 km, about halfway. Next is back through Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar.
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back through Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar comes up 82 km in. Next is back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp.
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98 km in you reach back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, late in the day. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
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The route ends here after 112 km.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → back through Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar → back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Haltwhistle Burn 1 Roman temporary camp → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.