06-05-2009, 11:55 AM
Duncan. The subject that sent Raymond Selkirk into his Roman Dam search was his interest in Logistics, and all over the country he began to find that the Romans used waterways for their supply routes. Indeed ask yourself just why was there a group of Tigrian bargemen at the mouth of the river Tyne and the name escapes me of yet another group of bargemen on the Solway Firth.
The Irthing river in the west and the Tyne in the east supply Hadrians' Wall with infact an interesting revelation as to why the wall leaves Segedunum at its south east corner becomes a Dam over the Tyne towards the fort of Danum near Jarrow.
That is the first dam on the Tyne then around every 5 to 6 miles we have others, then after Hexham these dams take us all the way to even Breminium on the river Rede.
The Irthing river in the west and the Tyne in the east supply Hadrians' Wall with infact an interesting revelation as to why the wall leaves Segedunum at its south east corner becomes a Dam over the Tyne towards the fort of Danum near Jarrow.
That is the first dam on the Tyne then around every 5 to 6 miles we have others, then after Hexham these dams take us all the way to even Breminium on the river Rede.
Brian Stobbs
