Roman Bridge Remains (Bitts Park)
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Description
.....The remains of the bridge are almost diagonally opposite (south-west) from the Holme Hyssop holy well, which is on the northern side of the River Eden, near to where Milecastle 66 stood. There are no visible remains of this milecastle left, but see Historic England Research Record 19191 for a few more details. Neither are details given in Historic England's The Hadrian’s Wall Milecastles Project: 1999–2000.....these stones are not cut in the usual Roman 'square cut' way, and don't really resemble those at either another Roman bridge site - see SID 52002, 'Hadrian's Wall, Chesters Bridge Abutment', Hadrian's Wall or any of the other Roman sites I've seen. I'm left wondering if what we've seen are actually the remains of a later bridge that got swept away in a flood?.... -
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Added by: Simon Cotterill
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