King's Wicket crossing, Hadrian's Wall
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Description
"King's Wicket is the point where a mediaeval drovers' road crossed Hadrian's Wall. It is likely that the same route was used already in pre-Roman times to cross the Whin Sill escarpment https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6169332 as it can be reached on a gentle slope from the north. There wouldn't have been a crossing here during Roman times as all traffic crossing the border went through the gates in the milecastles https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6162218 along the Wall. The actual wall shown here is not originally Roman but has been built by farmers later on using wall segements or stones from the original Roman curtain wall, remnants of which can be found a few metres east of the modern field wall in this section. The curtain wall of Hadrian's Wall was much wider http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6170031 , consisting of two stone walls about two metres apart and backfilled with rubble." Photo by Rudi Winter, 2018. -
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What does this mean? Creative Commons License
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Further information
Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6169997
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 6 days, 9 hours ago
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Picture Taken: 2018-08-05 -
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