04-06-2009, 09:27 PM
Yuri. I have been looking at your article and not wanting to be rude at all, we have to consider just how can the road leaving the fort to the North go thro' the Wall for there were no gates going thro' a turret.
Then when we check out your view topic link and comments made by Mike Bishop regarding Collingwood Bruce, here is a small piece from Collingwood Bruce reference the wall. (It passes under the south end of St Dominic's Church and thence almost in a straight line to the Sallyport Gate; after which it begins to turn northward in a gentle curve passing through the northern end of All Saints' Church to the presumed site of milecastle 4{Pilgrim Street). on the Tyne bridge approach, where Roman pottery have been found. When last found , just west of this point, it was aiming as if to pass a little north of St Nichols's Cathedral but tradition suggests that it turned southwards, presumably to join the north east angle of the fort near the Blackgate.)
The wall has never been found in this area so how can anyone say it stands 100 yds north of the fort ?
Then when we check out your view topic link and comments made by Mike Bishop regarding Collingwood Bruce, here is a small piece from Collingwood Bruce reference the wall. (It passes under the south end of St Dominic's Church and thence almost in a straight line to the Sallyport Gate; after which it begins to turn northward in a gentle curve passing through the northern end of All Saints' Church to the presumed site of milecastle 4{Pilgrim Street). on the Tyne bridge approach, where Roman pottery have been found. When last found , just west of this point, it was aiming as if to pass a little north of St Nichols's Cathedral but tradition suggests that it turned southwards, presumably to join the north east angle of the fort near the Blackgate.)
The wall has never been found in this area so how can anyone say it stands 100 yds north of the fort ?
Brian Stobbs
