08-17-2013, 09:23 AM
I wonder if the Dere Street might have been called the Via Caledonia as it was one of the major roads to Scotland, but then there are many Roman roads all over Northumberland going to Scotland.
There is the Devils Causeway that crosses the Dere Street that comes up from the Stanegate going to Howick Haven half way up the coast with other branches going off it one to Berwick and another three lane road going north on the east of the Cheviots that runs parallel to the Dere Street.
The Devils causeway may have been named from the Devils Water a branch of the Tyne river that goes south opposite the Roman town of Corbridge, this road does not go south but there is one that follows the Devils water to link with a major one coming from Ebchester to Hexham where the Ala Petriana were stationed.
It continues over the south Tyne at Fourstones on the Stanegate and also passes by the fort of Procolitia past the west door of the shrine of Coventina the only Romano Celtic shrine in Britain that has a western door.
There is the Devils Causeway that crosses the Dere Street that comes up from the Stanegate going to Howick Haven half way up the coast with other branches going off it one to Berwick and another three lane road going north on the east of the Cheviots that runs parallel to the Dere Street.
The Devils causeway may have been named from the Devils Water a branch of the Tyne river that goes south opposite the Roman town of Corbridge, this road does not go south but there is one that follows the Devils water to link with a major one coming from Ebchester to Hexham where the Ala Petriana were stationed.
It continues over the south Tyne at Fourstones on the Stanegate and also passes by the fort of Procolitia past the west door of the shrine of Coventina the only Romano Celtic shrine in Britain that has a western door.
Brian Stobbs
