07-24-2012, 02:42 PM
Duncan.
I do indeed understand what you mean about the different stages of Hadrian's Wall and the road that ran east/west behind it.
However if we consider the Hadrianic bridge at Chesters it was simply the means of crossing a major river and as far as it carrying Hadrian's Wall it was not big enough nor strong enough to support the wall for it was simply a wood structure on bridge piers and even the much larger complete stone Severan bridge also did not carry the wall over the river.
In refering to it as a military way that was simply to say that the track road or what ever we wish to call it coming from the bridge to the porta Quintana Destra was the only ever eastern entrance to the fort.
In having done this survey I would think that people may well have led themselves astray by discovering this circle and thinking II Asturia cavalry gyrus.
I do indeed understand what you mean about the different stages of Hadrian's Wall and the road that ran east/west behind it.
However if we consider the Hadrianic bridge at Chesters it was simply the means of crossing a major river and as far as it carrying Hadrian's Wall it was not big enough nor strong enough to support the wall for it was simply a wood structure on bridge piers and even the much larger complete stone Severan bridge also did not carry the wall over the river.
In refering to it as a military way that was simply to say that the track road or what ever we wish to call it coming from the bridge to the porta Quintana Destra was the only ever eastern entrance to the fort.
In having done this survey I would think that people may well have led themselves astray by discovering this circle and thinking II Asturia cavalry gyrus.
Brian Stobbs
