09-09-2012, 01:01 AM
Duncan.
Well done it is near to milecastle 31 and my picture is looking west with the cattle on 31 with the fort of Procolitia just beyond, and as you say we are back to ditches as is shown on the right of the road.
Then to mention yet again Coventina's Well I might even suggest that it may predate Hadrian's Wall, for it has been claimed that it is the only Romano/Celtic shrine in Britain with a western entrance and so it would have for there is a road running north past its west side. Hence the reason for Procolitia to be where it is for we have another port gate as at the fort of Onnum where the Dere Street goes past the east side of this fort.
Well done it is near to milecastle 31 and my picture is looking west with the cattle on 31 with the fort of Procolitia just beyond, and as you say we are back to ditches as is shown on the right of the road.
Then to mention yet again Coventina's Well I might even suggest that it may predate Hadrian's Wall, for it has been claimed that it is the only Romano/Celtic shrine in Britain with a western entrance and so it would have for there is a road running north past its west side. Hence the reason for Procolitia to be where it is for we have another port gate as at the fort of Onnum where the Dere Street goes past the east side of this fort.
Brian Stobbs