Feb. 3rd, 2023

purplecat: Averbury Stone Circle.  A large stone close by and smaller markers leading away. (General:Prehistory)
Day 5 was a ridiculously short walk. The intention had been to take a side-walk down to Corbridge as part of the day's walking, but I'd made a mistake and the side-walk left the main path close to Heddon-on-the-Wall (at the end of the Day 6 planned walk) not close to Chollerford (the end of the Day 5 walk). In the event therefore, even taking things slowly we were in Chollerford by lunch time.


Straight and flat stretch of Hadrians Wall


One of the places we lingered - or at least lingered as much as one can really, when viewing a stone building in a field, was a Temple to Mithras close to our B&B at the start of the day.

Rectangular low walls.  At the far side a pathway leads in at an entrance.  Small stone markers form an aisle down the centre of the building.
Top of a stone altar with pennies and a small bracelet left in it.
B. stands next to three upright stones at the end of the building.
All the carved stones were, in fact, reproductions. The originals were in the museum at Chester fort.
B. behind the three large stones at the end looking as if he's about to nick something from the altar.


Once we got to Chollerford and deposited our back-packs at the hotel where we had upgraded our room to a luxury suite - largely because they offered such an upgrade as part of some weird pretend auction - anyway we got it for £9. We went to see the footings of the Roman bridge across the Tyne opposite Chesters (we also visited Chesters but I'll do that as a separate post). This wasn't in the guide-book for the walk for some reason so we'd missed it last time around. The Tyne has moved so the bridge footings are now some distance from the river.
Cut for Roman Graffiti which I hesitate to call obscene since the Roman's thought it was a symbol of good luck. )

Despite being called Chollerford - there was a bridge.

Arched bridge over a river.

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