Hadrian\'s Wall on Google Street View

[mcbishop]

You can now visit the Hadrian's Wall forts of Housesteads, Birdoswald, and Chesters on Google Street View, as well as the Saxon Shore fort of Portchester. These were done with the trike, not the backpack, so they were quite limited by terrain (especially at Housesteads!).

Mike Bishop

[Vindex]

Damn! Just looked at Chesters and feel abominably homesick :-(

Thank you for the links though!

[Flavivs Aetivs]

I think if you have google earth there's a 3D re-construction of it.

[66kbm]

Now wouldnt all Roman Roads by I Margary on Google Street View be great....in two volumes of course.
Kevin

[mcbishop]

Now wouldnt all Roman Roads by I Margary on Google Street View be great....in two volumes of course.
Kevin

Well, I've got a GE file that will one day be able to help. All Margary roads, plus as many subsequent roads as I could add. Oh, plus all milestones, and lead pig find spots too ;-) Has to wait for the legionary fortresses website to be finished (very time-consuming) before I get onto that one.

Have to say, Street View of some disused lengths of road would be a bit dull.

Mike Bishop

[66kbm]

Oh Mike, i must say that THE disused sections/portions of Roman road are the ones that are most interesting. Put it this way...i am on Google Street View/or simil;ar, and i spend 45 mins on the A5 seeing nothing different than i would on normal Street View. Now if one was to suddenly come across rough ground, humps and bumps, and were told that this was virtua;lly unaltered Roman road, then i would be delighted. In a City, Exeter, Chester etc, there is nothing worse than looking at a plaque on the ground saying "it was here, etc", compared to seeing real walls/buildings/remains.
I seem to have slightly diversified from the original thread, ooops, my apologies.
Kevin

[Kegluneq]

In a City, Exeter, Chester etc, there is nothing worse than looking at a plaque on the ground saying "it was here, etc", compared to seeing real walls/buildings/remains.

In Chester you do have the street plan still in place though, and a huge great building where the principia would be - it gives a sense of scale and population you don't get on the barren rural sites!

Bit of a shame that the Houseteads buggy didn't make it down to the latrine. I can see the benefit for getting a general idea of a site, but it's nothing like yomping over the actual ruins themselves. Even when it went past the praetorium I couldn't see a good angle on the drains in the stable, one of the nicer details of the building.