08-18-2013, 09:02 AM
MARCVS.
Here is a picture of Roman roads in the area of Corbridge and the Tyne Valley that shows how roads leave Ebchester, the Dere Street going via Bywell to cross the Tyne and not at Corbridge.
There is also the Stanegate leaving Corbridge and going east to Bywell it does of course go much further east than that, there is also the frontier discovered by the late Raymond Selkirk known as his 255 line which pre-dates Hadrians Wall and this goes from coast to coast -Whitley Bay to Maryport in Cumbria- with fortlets every mile with also larger forts very similar to just what Hadrian decided at a later date.
Here is a picture of Roman roads in the area of Corbridge and the Tyne Valley that shows how roads leave Ebchester, the Dere Street going via Bywell to cross the Tyne and not at Corbridge.
There is also the Stanegate leaving Corbridge and going east to Bywell it does of course go much further east than that, there is also the frontier discovered by the late Raymond Selkirk known as his 255 line which pre-dates Hadrians Wall and this goes from coast to coast -Whitley Bay to Maryport in Cumbria- with fortlets every mile with also larger forts very similar to just what Hadrian decided at a later date.
Brian Stobbs
