03-30-2008, 01:26 PM
The Stanegate does predate Hadrians' wall but it has nothing to do with the latter as a link to it's forts, infact it is a frontier that has never been fully understood even by archaeologists. This is where for many years now it has been assumed that it only runs from Carlisle to Corbridge then crosses the Tyne and goes east along the south bank of the river. It is only in more recent time that the Northern Archaeology Group led by the late Ramond Selkirk have shown that it is another frontier that ran from coast to coast and did carry on east from Corbridge on the north bank of the Tyne.
Brian Stobbs
