CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 139 km round trip from Bardon Mill - roughly 2 h 21 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel, Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari, Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B and back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari.
Vindolanda is the place where the Romans on the northern frontier start to sound like people. The fort stood on the Stanegate road, just south of the wall, and for several centuries it was rebuilt again and again, each new fort laid on top of the last. The damp, airless soil preserved wood and leather, and in 1973 archaeologists found thin wooden writing tablets covered in ink, letters written by soldiers, officers and their families in about AD 100. They are the oldest handwritten documents found in Britain.
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Vindolanda is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
East of Carlisle, near the market town of Brampton, Hadrian's Wall crosses a landscape of rolling farmland, hedges and woods along the valley of the River Irthing. Here the wall and its vallum, the great earthwork ditch that ran behind it on the southern side, cross fields where the stone has mostly been robbed for farm buildings, but the earthworks remain clearly visible as long ridges and hollows in the grass.
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Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari.
Carlisle has been a frontier city for nearly two thousand years, and the vallum that runs across its northern edge is part of the reason. North of the River Eden, in the suburb of Stanwix, stood the largest fort on the whole of Hadrian's Wall, home to a cavalry regiment a thousand strong. The fort lies under the streets and the churchyard now, but the line of the Wall and its rear earthwork, the vallum, can be traced across the fields and gardens to the west, and walkers on the national trail follow it out of the city towards the Solway.
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about 42 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari. Next is Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B.
The western end of Hadrian's Wall is not where most people expect. Instead of a grand terminus, the frontier fades out among the tidal mud and salt marsh of the Solway Firth, near the village of Bowness-on-Solway, where the last fort once stood. Between Port Carlisle and Bowness the wall is almost entirely gone, its stones carried away for later buildings, and what survives is a line across the fields, a slight rise and a path along the shore. In this section the wall was originally built of turf rather than stone, a cheaper material for the flatter, softer ground.
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Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari.
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back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel.
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Read the complete Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel write-up.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel comes up about 118 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vindolanda.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vindolanda write-up.
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Vindolanda closes the day.
Vindolanda → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the fiel → Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari → Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and B → back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundari → 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 → Vindolanda is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.