Tuesday 13 September 2016

(The route of) Hadrians Wall

A walk along the most scenic part of the route followed by Hadrians Wall. Sometimes the wall could be seen and sometime it couldn't.

Hadrian's Wall  was a defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia, begun in 122 AD in the reign of the emperor Hadrian. It ran from the banks of the River Tyne near the North Sea to the Solway Firth on the Irish Sea, and was the northern limit of the Roman EmpireIt had a stone base and a stone wall. There were milecastles with two turrets in between. There was a fort about every five Roman miles. From north to south, the wall comprised a ditch, wall, military way and vallum, another ditch with adjoining mounds. It is thought the milecastles were staffed with static garrisons, whereas the forts had fighting garrisons of infantry and cavalry.

The wall in its central and best-preserved section follows a hard, resistant igneous diabase rock escarpment, known as the Whin Sill. This was the route of my walk.























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