CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 172 km round trip from Brampton - roughly 2 h 30 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet, Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632, Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 and back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Beside the river Gelt, a small stream that runs through a wooded sandstone gorge east of Carlisle, a smooth face of rock bears an inscription cut by Roman soldiers some eighteen centuries ago. This is the Written Rock of Gelt. It marks the quarry where legionaries cut stone for the western part of Hadrian's Wall, and it records their work, with names and dates, in neat Latin letters that are still readable though weathered by the rain.
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Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip is where the day begins. Next is Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet.
Midway along Hadrian's Wall, the land rises into a dramatic line of crags, and here the wall perches along the edge of the Whin Sill, a hard, dark rock that stands like a cliff over green pastures. Roman engineers followed the natural line of the escarpment, and from the top you can see for miles across moor and farmland, with the Cheviot hills blue in the north.
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Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632. Next is Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2.
Most people picture Hadrian's Wall striding across lonely Northumberland crags. Wall mile 2 is the other end of the story: an urban stretch in the east of Newcastle upon Tyne, where the wall ran from the fort at Wallsend, Segedunum, westwards along the north bank of the Tyne towards the bridge and fort at Pons Aelius, beneath today's city centre. Very little of the wall itself is visible here; terraced houses, roads and shipyards have long since swallowed it. But you are standing on the first miles of a frontier that once ran coast to coast for about eighty Roman miles.
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Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet.
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back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet comes up about 145 km into the recorded legs. Next is Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip write-up.
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Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip closes the day.
Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip → Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet → Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 is 29 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 in wall mile 2 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2 → back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the B632 → back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hadrian's Wall and associated features bet → Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscrip is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.