Hadrian's Wall
24 images Created 12 Aug 2010
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Quiet places of antiquity speak louder when deserted so it was dawn when I left the car at Steel Rigg as early blue Northumbrian light gathered ..
I heard the early calls of kestrels and sheep and the Michelin drone of car tyres on the B6318 below. Fifty miles south was the rest of England while to the north was Kielder Forest and the modern Borders. A South-Westerly blew and I hauled up my rucksack. Here a Roman once stood shivering, his back to the cold and eyes fixed to the north while scanning the forests for a blood-thirsty enemy.
Hadrian's 4.5m high Wall was 80 Roman miles (73.5 miles, 117km) long and so important was it to secure its length that up to 10% of the Roman army total force were stationed here. Like the concrete curtain that draws across Gaza from Israeli control, Hadrian's stranglehold on the locals was total ..
http://bit.ly/95H9nq
Quiet places of antiquity speak louder when deserted so it was dawn when I left the car at Steel Rigg as early blue Northumbrian light gathered ..
I heard the early calls of kestrels and sheep and the Michelin drone of car tyres on the B6318 below. Fifty miles south was the rest of England while to the north was Kielder Forest and the modern Borders. A South-Westerly blew and I hauled up my rucksack. Here a Roman once stood shivering, his back to the cold and eyes fixed to the north while scanning the forests for a blood-thirsty enemy.
Hadrian's 4.5m high Wall was 80 Roman miles (73.5 miles, 117km) long and so important was it to secure its length that up to 10% of the Roman army total force were stationed here. Like the concrete curtain that draws across Gaza from Israeli control, Hadrian's stranglehold on the locals was total ..
