A Roman Fort - Animation

[Decimus_Vitus]

Steve. I find your subject very interesting and I know the Pons Aelius aspect has been completed now, however it would have been so good to have shown a Roman Dam that would have stood just upstream of the Bridge near this fort.
This is some thing about the supply logistics of the Wall and other places that many are not aware of, indeed on Monday of this week I took Martin Mcaree and friends along the river Tyne to where part of a Roman Dam with it's pound lock is still intact.
This was at Bywell some five miles east of Corbridge where the Roman Dere crossed the river Tyne. If you should ever have to do anything concerning the fort of Segedunum there is a reason why the Wall leaves this fort at it's Southeast corner and goes to the river Tyne, and it has everything to do with what I have just mentioned about Dams.

The dam sounds interesting and to be honest I don't recall hearing anything about a dam in the area. It would be interesting to do a scene of the Romans contructing it. I am not from the area ...judging from the width of the river it must have been an enormous dam.


- Thanks Neil. Fantastic reconstruction you did there. I admire your model making skills. Not sure about the turrets of which you speak. Most of what I have read about and info I collected seem to lean towards a two story building turret. But as you mentioned there could possibly have been 3 story turrets at certain points.