06-05-2009, 11:38 AM
Quote:Raymond Selkirk did indeed do excavations at Bywell where Roman coins were found on the north bank of the river above the bridge. Then there was also his other excavations some 500 yards north of the river in the woods at Bywell where he revealed the crossroads of his "Proto Dere Street" going north and the "Stanegate Road" that travels east from Corbridge and at this point there was also a roman road leading away south to the Curches at Bywell one of which is full of roman stone work that did not as assumed come from Corbridge.What a pity this kind of information isn't more widely available. Perhaps you have copies of the reports, Brian?
Quote:... there have been comments in the past about how good the "WEIR" at Bywell was for the catching of salmon but not that it was built for such ...Binnie's Early Dam Building in Britain mentions a medieval document which shows that the weir did not exist yet, and another later document that mentions it. But if was Roman, I wonder why the Romans would have dammed the river here?
