04-21-2008, 02:46 PM
Quote:I don't know about "half of it" being speculation! As far as I can see, the only speculation is the "supposed line of fort wall". The rest is a representation of archaeological work done on behalf of Newcastle City Council and published in Britannia 17 (1986), p. 377.
MARCVS PETRONIVS MAIVS:3f3vbx6r Wrote:... by looking at Campbell's diagram, the positioning of the fort and the outline of the wall I would personally say they do connect.Hadrian's Wall does not appear in the excavation plan!
It does not, but by looking at the diagram you found and then looking at google maps, westgate road seems to inevitably bump into the fort.
I have spoken to MC Bishop and he had this to say (I must say I did not quite fairly understand it) :
Quote:The fort is built after the curtain wall so the alignment is not
particularly significant. You need to see the chapter on the setting of
the fort in the AA volume I mentioned fully to appreciate the arguments
of its positioning, but the Lort Burn and its tributary to the west (now
under The Side) confine the fort to a promontory to the south of the
Wall itself and the likely location of the Wall ditch just south-west of
the cathedral make it virtually impossible for the fort to have joined
onto it, not least because it would have had a) a stream running through
it and b) to have joined the curtain wall at an angle (the fort is
aligned pretty much N-S, but the Wall appears to run WSW to ENE). The
biggest clue, however, is that they found the northern fort wall in 1986!
