Travel Photos

A Few General Shots

2006-10-15T10:45:00.000+01:00

Some general views of the section between Chollerford and Heddon-on-the-Wall.

And yet more

2006-10-14T16:54:00.000+01:00

The first photo looks East from Housesteads towards Winshields Crag, the second highest point on the walk. The second is the same section, but with the ruins of a milecastle in the foreground. The body of water is Broomlee Lough. the third pic is of Sycamore Gap - fairly self-explanatory really and the fourth is on crags high above Broomlee Lough - the white dots across the water are sheep, which gives some scale.

Four more

2006-10-14T15:50:00.000+01:00

The first 2 here are linked, the notice board refers to Milecastle 42 at Cawfields Quarry, the subject of the next picture, with, unfortunately, a couple of stupid (American) tourists who were jumping all over the archaeology. The third one is of Georgy contemplating the next couple of hours walking and wondering what the hell he's doing there. The last pic here is of the section at Heddon-on-the Wall, about 10 miles West of Newcastle, the last extant part of the Wall before Wallsend. The circular feature is believed to be a mediaeval kiln built into the old Roman Wall.

Starting to get the hang of it

2006-10-14T14:42:00.000+01:00

I'm just doing a few at a time otherwise they take too long. These 4 are : walking through woods between Bowness and Carlisle, the Market Square at Haltwhistle - the "Centre of Britain", looking East from Walltown Crags to some of the harder sections of the walk and Walltown Crags looking back West at Walltown Quarry.

Second Attempt

2006-10-14T12:18:00.000+01:00

Some more Hadrian's photos. I'm still learning how to do this so it may be a bit slow and unprofessional to start with. The pictures give a small flavour of the beautiful countryside through which the Wall passes. It was built from 122AD on the orders of the Roman Emperor Hadrian to regulate the Northern frontier of the Roman Empire. Briefly abandoned during the later 2nd century when a more Northerly wall (the Antonine) was built on the orders of one of Hadrian's successors, Antoninus Pius, it was then re-occupied until the withdrawal of the legions from Britain sometime in the 5th century.

First Go

2006-10-09T05:40:00.000+01:00

Some pics of my recent Hadrian'sWall walk.