CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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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129 km from Brampton to Brampton, about 2 h 10 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry Eas, Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 and back through Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 26 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Do not expect a great stone wall here. Near Brampton, on the stretch running out toward the A6071, Hadrian's Wall is mostly a matter of earthworks and imagination: a line in a field, a softened ditch, the long parallel banks of the vallum to the south. In this western sector the wall was originally built of turf and timber before being rebuilt in stone, and centuries of farmers and builders carried off the dressed stones for barns and churches. What survives is listed as part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and once your eye tunes in, you start seeing the line everywhere.
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Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry Eas.
Of all the places where Hadrian's Wall still behaves like a wall, Walltown is one of the most dramatic. The masonry rides the crest of the Great Whin Sill, a sheet of hard dark dolerite that pushed up through the surrounding rock about three hundred million years ago and then weathered into a line of cliffs facing north. The Roman engineers simply put their wall on top of the cliff, so the stones rise and fall with the crags, dipping into gaps the locals call nicks and climbing out again. Stand up there on a windy day and look north towards the empty country of Northumberland and you understand exactly why they chose the line.
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Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry Eas comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &.
Of all the Roman sites along Hadrian's Wall, Carrawburgh may be the most mysterious. The fort itself, called Brocolitia, is largely unexcavated, a grassy platform beside the Military Road, but just below it, in a boggy hollow, stands the reconstructed outline of a small temple of Mithras, the soldiers' god, whose cult was popular among the Roman army. The temple was excavated in 1949, and its three altars, now replaced by replicas, the originals being in the Great North Museum in Newcastle, were dedicated by commanders of the garrison. Nearby, a spring dedicated to the water goddess Coventina yielded an astonishing hoard of coins, altars and offerings when it was excavated in the nineteenth century, around thirteen thousand coins in all.
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about 44 km into the recorded legs you reach Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630.
Out at the eastern end of the frontier, the Wall leaves the moors behind and runs through gentle farmland toward Newcastle, and most of what survives here is not stone but earth: the vallum, a broad ditch flanked by banks that the Romans dug just south of the Wall along almost its entire length. Between the Tyne and the Military Road, near Heddon-on-the-Wall and Rudchester, the vallum can be traced in the fields as a long hollow, and the Wall itself lies largely under the road or as low courses in the grass. Its purpose is still debated, but most scholars see it as a boundary marking the military zone, controlling who could approach the Wall.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630, about halfway. Next is back through Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall &.
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back through Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry Eas.
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back through Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry Eas comes up about 106 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The.
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Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The → Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry Eas is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry Eas → Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B630 → back through Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Carrawburgh Roman fort & Hadrian's Wall & → back through Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry Eas is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry Eas → Hadrian's Wall & vallum from A6071 to The is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.