07-15-2010, 07:26 PM
Nathan.
This line of frontier does in fact run from the east just north of Whitley Bay on a heading of 255 degrees and may appear to leave the south bank of the Solway outside the Roman frontier, but this is not so for the earlier frontier of the Stanegate closely follows the south bank of the river Irthing and also the south side of the Eden as it's Limas all the way to Bowness.
Things of course changed after the known disaster in around 117 AD to 119 AD when Hadrian decided to put his wall to the north of the Irthing giving his western supply route and as we know he also carried shore defences down the Cumbrian coast to Maryport.
This line of frontier does in fact run from the east just north of Whitley Bay on a heading of 255 degrees and may appear to leave the south bank of the Solway outside the Roman frontier, but this is not so for the earlier frontier of the Stanegate closely follows the south bank of the river Irthing and also the south side of the Eden as it's Limas all the way to Bowness.
Things of course changed after the known disaster in around 117 AD to 119 AD when Hadrian decided to put his wall to the north of the Irthing giving his western supply route and as we know he also carried shore defences down the Cumbrian coast to Maryport.
Brian Stobbs
