CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 118 km round trip from Benwell - roughly 1 h 37 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
If the Wall was the barrier you could see, the vallum was the barrier you were not supposed to cross. This is a great flat-bottomed ditch, about six metres wide, with mounds of earth on either side, and it ran along the south of the Wall for most of its length, forming a kind of military zone behind the frontier. Nobody is quite sure of its purpose, though the usual theory is that it marked the rear boundary of the area and controlled the movement of people and goods. At Benwell, within Newcastle, the vallum has one of its best-known features, a stone causeway that allowed the road to cross the ditch near the fort gate, a neat piece of Roman engineering that came to light in the twentieth century.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6 is where the day begins. 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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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
Just west of Chollerford the road climbs onto higher ground and the Wall begins to show itself, first as a hump in the fields, then as a ditch and earthwork running alongside the tarmac. This is the central sector of Hadrian's Wall, built from the 120s on the orders of the emperor Hadrian to mark the northern edge of Roman Britain, and the stretch around Carrawburgh is one of the most atmospheric. The vallum, a broad ditch flanked by mounds on the southern side of the Wall, is especially clear here, and it shows the Roman frontier was not just a wall but a whole military zone, with forts, milecastles, turrets, roads and earthworks.
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about 40 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel. Next is Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and.
A Syrian archer unit once garrisoned this hilltop. Carvoran was the Roman fort at the junction of the Wall with the Maiden Way, a road that ran north towards Scotland, and at one time the cohors I Hamiorum, an auxiliary unit raised in the city of Hama in Syria, was stationed here, men who had marched or sailed across the empire to guard a wet, windy ridge in Northumberland. A bronze grain measure found at Carvoran, the Carvoran modius, carries a long inscription that mentions the emperor Hadrian, and it gives a glimpse of how the garrison was supplied. The fort is mostly a grassy platform now, but the position, on a ridge with views over the Tyne Gap, shows why it was chosen.
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Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and, about halfway. 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 sits at 100 km, 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.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 comes up about 100 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6 closes the day.
Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6 → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 is 20 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 and vallum between the fiel is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 → Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6 is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.