03-05-2012, 10:33 PM
It is interesting to note that Bishop Rigg is on the 255 degree frontier line as discovered and recorded by the late Raymond Selkirk, this is a line that has forts at Roman mile intervals running from Whitley Bay on the east coast to Maryport in Cumbria.
This frontier line crosses Hadrian's Wall a bit further east between Whitchester and Harlow Hill or to be more correct Hadrian's Wall crosses this earlier line, it then links up with the Red House Roman Fort on the Stanegate to the west of the Roman site of Corbridge.
The 255 line then crosses the river Tyne and continues westward to Maryport on the Cumbrian coast, therefore as Robert has pointed out there may be more to what we think about Bishop Rigg being a marching camp.
This frontier line crosses Hadrian's Wall a bit further east between Whitchester and Harlow Hill or to be more correct Hadrian's Wall crosses this earlier line, it then links up with the Red House Roman Fort on the Stanegate to the west of the Roman site of Corbridge.
The 255 line then crosses the river Tyne and continues westward to Maryport on the Cumbrian coast, therefore as Robert has pointed out there may be more to what we think about Bishop Rigg being a marching camp.
Brian Stobbs
