Wall Mile 0


https://perlineamvalli.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/wall-mile-0/

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Wall Mile 0


Hadrian's Wall

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    Wall Mile 0 (May 29, 2012). Mike Bishop's PLV blog about walking Hadrian’s Wall written from an archaeologist’s point of view. "Just when everybody has been telling you Hadrian’s Wall is 80 Roman miles long, you discover that in fact it was 81! Due to an accounting error (or perhaps somebody simply got out of bed on the wrong side one wall-numbering day), the first Wall Mile is Wall Mile 0, not Wall Mile 1 as you might expect. To be fair, nobody has ever actually found MC1 or even MC0, nor are they completely sure where they might be, since it all depends where the start is measured from...."

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    Per Lineam Valli - Mike Bishop

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    Local (Co-Curate)

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    Link: https://perlineamvalli.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/wall-mile-0/
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 3 weeks ago
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