03-30-2008, 10:41 AM
Having got through to the Pons Aelius article, there are a few points that do need correcting. There is a photogragh showing a bridge in Rome over the Tiber river, it is being refered to as the Ponti Sant'Angelo which is not correct. This particular bridge is infact the Ponti San'Sebastiano which crosses the Tiber leading to the tomb of the Emperor Hadrian, which of course is also known also as the Castel Sant'Angelo that was the fortification for the Vatican. Another point that needs correcting is where the article mentions that the Stanegate road runs through Pons Aelius fort, and that this road linked all the Hadrians' Wall forts. This is incorrect for the Stanegate was another frontier limes that predates the Hadrians' Wall frontier system, the Stanegate road may have ran through the area of the Pons Aelius but did not link the Hadrians' Wall forts. The Stanegate road does travel east of Corbridge, indeed I have traced it to the western ends of the city of Newcastle and may safely assume that it does travel from coast to coast as an erlier limes.
Brian Stobbs
