Hadrians Wall

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I had the impression, walking over the site, that the slope had probably increased somewhat due to subsidence over the past eighteen hundred or so years. It seemed to get much steeper close to the bath house and I found myself wondering whether the bath house might have been built on a flat space created by digging out an existing slope and shifting the spoil uphill to create a more level space for the gyrus. If this was the case, over the intervening time it would naturally have slipped back to something like its original profile. Any soil which had slipped down onto the ruined bath house would have been removed when it was excavated. I suppose though that the area would have to be dug to establish whether this could actually have been the case.

Thanks for the picture by the way, Duncan.

Crispvs