Hadrian's Wall, Chapel House - Walbottle Dene (Wall mile 9)
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Description
The curtain wall has not been investigated in this mile but is presumed to lie under the road. The Wall ditch is visible on the north side of the road in the grounds of Walbottle School, while the Vallum is visible as earthworks parallel with and south of the road, interrupted in places by roads, etc. Turret 9b was "looked for by measurement and excavation" in 1928 but not found. In 2001 during a watching brief at Stephenson Terrace, Blucher the ditch was found to be 5 metres wide and lay some 2.5 metres south of the line shown on Ordnance Survey plans. The ditch, c.8 metres wide and 2.6 metres deep was also found to survive at Walbottle Service Station, where the top of the ditch fill lay 0.78 metres below current ground level, and the northern upcast mound or glacis was 0.43 metres below ground level. -
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