Saturday 23 September 2023

Visiting Hadrian's Wall, again - posted by Andrew Bennetts, 21 September 2023

Sycamore Gap, then and now.
Back in 1984, I was lucky enough to spend 2 weeks as a volunteer helping to excavate what is one of the tallest standing lengths of Hadrian’s Wall, almost 2m high. Wonderful to visit again after 39 years (gulp!).
DBMM NZ content: Good luck to everyone at CTA in a couple of weeks. Can someone please make sure Richard Foster doesn’t win it a third time 😀

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Daniel Wade
Same view as on the Kevin Costner movie?
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  • Vincent Cholewa
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    Have a great time, Andrew Bennetts 😊 I understand there are excellent museums at some of the towns near the wall. Just hinting!
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  • John Garvey
    The Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle has a scale model of the wall. And if you can, the Arbeia Fort at South Shields is seriously good, better than Segedunum IMO. But check the opening times.
  • Ben Vartok
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    The Romans really haven’t maintained that very well.
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  • Allen Yaxley
    Looks like you had great weather. Enjoy.👍
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  • Geoff Pearson
    The Gap was a little bare when I was there in April
Alastair Duncan
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And all these years I thought that it was Kevin Coster playing you in Robin Hood at Sycamore gap!





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