04-16-2008, 04:11 PM
Quote:I would like very much to know just where Breeze got his information from, if people were aware of bridge piers in 1872-5 and clearly state they had double cut waters how can this now not be so. I would also like to know how our man Breeze is fairly certain that the fort is not Hadrianic but much later.I can probably help you with that.
He cites Archaeologia Aeliana 5th ser. 19 (1991) pp. 17-24, on the bridge. And idem 31 (2002) on the fort. Looks as if there's been some recent activity!
(As I lamented before, not being a native of these parts, I don't have easy access to this local journal.
)And of course there's Paul Bidwell & Neil Holbrook's Hadrian's Wall Bridges (1989) -- not being a bridge specialist, I have never read that one.
