ROMAN HISTORY II

Continuing the time at Haydon Bridge to explore Roman History.

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Exhibits, Vindolanda Museum, Bardon Mill, Hexham, Northumberland, England UK

Sculpture Exhibit, Vindolanda Museum, Bardon Mill, Hexham, Northumberland, England UK

Vindolanda Museum Gardens, Bardon Mill, Hexham, Northumberland, England UK

Chainley Burn, Vindolanda Museum Gardens, Bardon Mill, Hexham, Northumberland, England UK

Chainley Burn, Vindolanda Museum Gardens, Bardon Mill, Hexham, Northumberland, England UK

Stone Post, Roman Army Museum, Pennine Way, Greenhead, Brampton, Northumberland, England UK

Majestic Tree, Roman Army Museum, Pennine Way, Greenhead, Brampton, Northumberland, England UK

Section of Hadrian’s Wall, Upper Denton, Brampton, Northumberland, England UK

This section is adjacent to the Birdoswald Roman Fort ruins.

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Ruins of Birdoswald Roman Fort, Upper Denton, Brampton, Northumberland, England UK

Hadrian’s Wall Banks East Turret, Pike Hill, Banks, Brampton, Cumbria, England UK

ROMAN HISTORY

One of the reasons to stay in Haydon Bridge was its proximity to ancient Roman archaeological sites and to Hadrian’s Wall.

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Housesteads Roman Fort, Military Road, Haydon Bridge, Hexham, Northumberland, England UK

Housesteads Roman Fort was an auxiliary fort on Hadrian’s Wall,at Housesteads, Northumberland, England. It is dramatically positioned on the end of the mile-long crag of the Whin Sill over which the Wall runs, overlooking sparsely populated hills. It was called the “grandest station” on the Wall and is one of the best-preserved and extensively displayed forts. It was occupied for almost 300 years.

The name of the fort has been given as Vercovicium, Borcovicus, Borcovicium, and Velurtion. An inscription found at Housesteads with the letters VER, is believed to be short for Ver(covicianorum), the letters ver being interchangeable with bor in later Latin.

The 18th-century farmhouse of Housesteads provides the modern name.

A Local Visitor, Military Road, Haydon Bridge, Hexham, Northumberland, England UK

Shaded Seating Area, Vindolanda Museum and Archaeological Site, Hexham, Northumberland, England UK

The seat supports are from the archaeological excavations.

Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) just south of Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, which it pre-dated. Archaeological excavations of the site show it was under Roman occupation from roughly 85 AD to 370 AD. Located near the modern village of Bardon Mill in Northumberland, it guarded the Stanegate, the Roman road from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth. It is noted for the Vindolanda tablets, a set of wooden leaf-tablets that were, at the time of their discovery, the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain.

Vindolanda Archaeological Site, Bardon Mill, Hexham, Northumberland, England UK

“The Way Home to Rome”, Roman Army Museum, Pennine Way, Greenhead, Brampton, Northumberland, England UK

Exhibits, Roman Army Museum, Pennine Way, Greenhead, Brampton, Northumberland, England UK

Majestic Tree, Roman Army Museum, Pennine Way, Greenhead, Brampton, Northumberland, England UK

Countryside View, Roman Army Museum, Pennine Way, Greenhead, Brampton, Northumberland, England UK

Crindledykes Lime Kiln, Bardon Mill, Hexham, Northumberland, England UK

“Crindledykes Lime Kiln” stands beside a minor road running from the Military Road, west of Housesteads Roman Fort, to Bardon Mill. It is one of several limekilns built in this area in the C19th to turn locally quarried limestone into quicklime. Coal was brought from the nearby Barcombe Coal Mine via a waggonway. It is the only kiln in Northumberland which had four draw arches supplied from a single upper pot, although two were later blocked up to reduce production in the early 1900s.

SPAIN 2023 – XV

The final images from Tarragona and the last of our stay in Spain. Next stop – UK!


Entrance, Marriott Hotel, Avinguda de Roma, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain


Street View, Avinguda de Roma, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain


Torre de les Monges, Rambla Vella, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

a.k.a. Tower of The Monks


Steps below Torre de les Monges, Rambla Vella, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain


Mural, Circ Romà, Rambla Vella, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

The Circ Romà  is where horse and chariot races were held. It had capacity for 20,000 people. It was built during the reign of Emperor Domitian (81–96 AD) and remained in operation until the 9th century AD.  Today it is classified as a World Heritge Site.


Ruins, Circ Romà, Rambla Vella, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain


Sculpture in the Wall, Circ Romà, Rambla Vella, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain


Tunnels, Circ Romà, Rambla Vella, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain


Torre del Pretori, Castell del Rei, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

a.k.a. – Castle of The King. The Romanesque castle was largely the result of the rehabilitation of a large Roman building that had been part of the provincial forum in the 12th century.


Bricked In, Parròquia de la Santíssima Trinitat, Carrer de Santa Anna, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain


Doorway, Museu Nacional Arqueològic, Plaza del Rei, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain


View to Plaza del Rei from Torre del Pretori o Castell del Rei, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain


Catedral Basílica Metropolitana i Primada de Santa Tecla de Tarragona, Plaza de la Seu, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain


View to Coast, Torre del Pretori, Passeig Saint Antoni, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain


Amfiteatre de Tarragona, Carrer de William J Bryan, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

The 2nd image was photographed from the top of The King’s Castle, a building traditionally known as the Roman pretories of Augustus or Pilate Tower. The amphitheatre is a World Heritage site constructed in the 2nd century. It could hold up to 15,000 spectators for Roman events.


Plaque, Subdelegación de Defensa en Tarragona, Rambla Vella, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

Department of Defense


Monument a Jacint Verdaguer, Plaça de Mossèn Cinto Verdaguer, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain


Casa de la Punxa, Rambla Nova, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain   c.1940


Parc de la Ciutat, Avinguda de Roma, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain


Parking is at a Premium, Carrer d’August, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain