Hadrian's Wall: Day 3
Jan. 1st, 2023 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purplecatOur longest walk - also the wettest and with significant up-and-down!!
We began encountering sections of wall in earnest, early on Day 3. This was our first bit. You can see the remains of a turret that were built every third of a mile along the wall.
These are the footings of the Roman bridge across the river Eden. The river itself has moved which is why B. isn't knee deep in water.
This was our first significant milecastle.
The same milecastle from the other side.
Thirwell Castle stands more or less at the point where the walk stops being through fields and villages and goes up and out onto open crags. We debated taking a look at the castle, but were aware we had a long way still to walk and had a deadline since we were booked into a stargazing event at our accommodation.
And we were out onto the crags where the remains of the wall run for long stretches.
Another milecastle.
We walked this section to Steel Rigg car park where we then descended to the Twice Brewed Inn at Once Brewed. We had booked ourselves in to the aforementioned Stargazing event but it was overcast and we were tired. B. had also had a last minute work emergency and was frantically trying to pull images and documentation together for someone. After an hour in which the man running it bravely kept us entertained with slide shows of astronomical phenomena and pieces of meteorite, we went back to our room so B. could send off his info and I could read in bed. We think the clouds did part briefly later on so if we had stayed we might have seen something but we didn't regret it too much.
We began encountering sections of wall in earnest, early on Day 3. This was our first bit. You can see the remains of a turret that were built every third of a mile along the wall.
These are the footings of the Roman bridge across the river Eden. The river itself has moved which is why B. isn't knee deep in water.
This was our first significant milecastle.
The same milecastle from the other side.
Thirwell Castle stands more or less at the point where the walk stops being through fields and villages and goes up and out onto open crags. We debated taking a look at the castle, but were aware we had a long way still to walk and had a deadline since we were booked into a stargazing event at our accommodation.
And we were out onto the crags where the remains of the wall run for long stretches.
Another milecastle.
We walked this section to Steel Rigg car park where we then descended to the Twice Brewed Inn at Once Brewed. We had booked ourselves in to the aforementioned Stargazing event but it was overcast and we were tired. B. had also had a last minute work emergency and was frantically trying to pull images and documentation together for someone. After an hour in which the man running it bravely kept us entertained with slide shows of astronomical phenomena and pieces of meteorite, we went back to our room so B. could send off his info and I could read in bed. We think the clouds did part briefly later on so if we had stayed we might have seen something but we didn't regret it too much.