CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Brampton it runs 160 km to Brampton; allow about 2 h 38 of riding. The stops in between: Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of, Skinburness, Brownrigg North tower 21b and back through Skinburness. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Not every stretch of Hadrian's Wall is the dramatic crag-top masonry of the postcards, and this is one of the quieter parts: a section of the vallum, the great ditch-and-mound earthwork the Romans dug behind the wall, running across farmland near Brampton in Cumbria. The stone wall here was largely robbed out long ago for farms and churches, so what survives is often a long, soft hollow in the grass, a line you only notice once someone points it out, and then can't stop seeing.
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The vallum between the field boundary sout is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of.
The Solway Firth, west of Carlisle, is a wide, shallow estuary where the Cumbrian plain opens out to the sea, and the marshes and farmland on its southern shore are the western end of Hadrian's Wall, with the Scottish hills visible on the far side. The land is low, wet and windy, with cattle in the fields and tall skies full of birds, and a visitor will find little that looks like Roman engineering until they look closely at the ground.
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Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Skinburness.
Skinburness is a scatter of houses at the tip of a shingle spit on the Solway coast of Cumbria, just north of Silloth, looking across the wide, shimmering estuary to the hills of Scotland. When the tide goes out, the Solway empties into vast expanses of sand and mud, with channels winding through them, and the light changes constantly as clouds race overhead. On clear evenings, the sunsets over the Scottish hills, with the dark bulk of Criffel opposite, are spectacular.
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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Skinburness. Next is Brownrigg North tower 21b.
Most people think Hadrian's Wall stops at the Solway, but the Roman frontier did not simply end at the water's edge. Beyond Bowness a chain of milefortlets and towers ran on down the Cumbrian coast, watching the sea and the hills of Scotland across the firth, and Brownrigg North, tower 21b in the archaeologists' numbering, was one of them. There is little to see on the ground now, often just a gentle swelling in a field, but stand here and look west and you understand why it was put there: the Solway opens out, and on a clear day the Galloway hills and the Isle of Man line the horizon.
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Brownrigg North tower 21b, about halfway. Next is back through Skinburness.
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back through Skinburness sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of comes up about 134 km into the recorded legs. Next is The vallum between the field boundary sout.
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The vallum between the field boundary sout closes the day.
The vallum between the field boundary sout → Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of → Skinburness is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Skinburness → Brownrigg North tower 21b is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brownrigg North tower 21b → back through Skinburness is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Skinburness → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of → The vallum between the field boundary sout is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.