CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Annan it runs 143 km to Annan; allow about 2 h 25 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and, Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar, Stone circle and back through Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar. The line favours views over speed.
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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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and.
The M6 motorway comes up the length of England and ends at Carlisle, only a few kilometres from the line of Hadrian's Wall, a fair joke for a road that also moves people from one side of a border to the other. The stretch of Wall between the motorway and the suburbs of Stanwix is a quiet one, where the line has to be guessed at from low earthworks and a few modern signs. Junction 43 sits just east of the city and serves the A69 towards Newcastle and the Roman Wall country, while the last junctions carry on to the north of the city and the road to Scotland.
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Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 49 km into the recorded legs you reach Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar. Next is Stone circle.
Long before the Romans built their wall across northern England, people were raising stones on these moors. Close to the line of Hadrian's Wall, in the hills north of Haydon Bridge and Haltwhistle, a small prehistoric stone circle stands in the rough grass, a few weathered boulders arranged in a ring, probably dating from the Bronze Age. Its exact purpose is unknown, but circles like this were often used for ceremonies or burials, and many have legends attached to them.
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Stone circle, 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 sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and comes up about 113 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so → Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and → Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar → Stone circle is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stone circle → back through Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quar is 23 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 Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track so is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.