Wall Mile 4
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Description
Wall Mile 4 (May 15, 2012). Mike Bishop's PLV blog about walking Hadrian’s Wall written from an archaeologist’s point of view. "....we reach the site of Milecastle 4 (Westgate Road), although the astute will note a slight adjustment in line just before we do....Scholarly calculations had long been baffled by the location of this (as it turns out) long-axis milecastle, not least because of the uncertainties we are about to encounter over the course of Wall Mile 3. In 1985, its discovery in the backyard of the Newcastle Arts Centre during the digging of a drain led to Milecastles 5 and 6 being shuffled along a bit from their old hypothetical locations to new hypothetical locations, and all was better. Its position is marked in the Black Swan Yard behind the Arts Centre...." -
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Per Lineam Valli - Mike Bishop -
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Further information
Link: https://perlineamvalli.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/wall-mile-4/
Resource type: Text/Website
Added by: Simon Cotterill
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