04-15-2008, 06:24 PM
The Pons Aelius was used all the way up untill Norman times, then a new bridge was built around 1248 and lasted up until the great flood of 1771. Then when the 1775 bridge was replaced by the swing bridge in 1875 it was found that the Hadrianic one had been built on stone piers which were on rafts of iron shod oak piles. The two altars to Oceanus and Neptuno were dredged from the river at about where the centre of the bridge would have been..... I would point out that this info comes from the J Collingworth Bruce book THE ROMAN WALL.
Brian Stobbs
