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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A 66 km round trip from Greenhead - roughly 1 h 10 in the saddle. The stops in between: The vallum and early Roman road between th, Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun and back through The vallum and early Roman road between th. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The vallum is the strangest part of Hadrian's Wall, and the one that nobody fully understands. It is a great flat-bottomed ditch, with a mound on each side, running along the south of the Wall for its whole length, and it was dug soon after the Wall was begun. The usual explanation is that it marked the back edge of the military zone, a boundary that civilians were not meant to cross except at controlled crossings, but nobody knows quite what it was for. Between Cockmount Hill and the village of Walltown, the vallum is clear and well preserved, a green trench in the field that you can follow with the eye for a long way.
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The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall is where the day begins. Next is The vallum and early Roman road between th.
From the Military Road near Sewingshields, look south and you will see a long, straight scar running across the moorland: two mounds and a ditch, keeping pace with the Wall a short way behind it. That is the vallum, the great earthwork the Romans dug along the south side of the frontier to mark a military zone, and running alongside it here are traces of an early Roman road. This stretch near Housesteads is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site, and it is one of the places where the full layout of the frontier, wall, ditch, vallum and road, is easiest to read in the landscape.
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The vallum and early Roman road between th comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun.
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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about 30 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun. Next is back through The vallum and early Roman road between th.
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back through The vallum and early Roman road between th, late in the day. Next is The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Back at The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall. That is the ride.
The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall → The vallum and early Roman road between th is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The vallum and early Roman road between th → Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall & vallum between field boun → back through The vallum and early Roman road between th is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The vallum and early Roman road between th → The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Wall is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.