Sunday, December 05, 2010

 

Leave It There !!

Here's an incriminating picture from the Oldies' big trip through the UK back in 2007. The place is Denton Fort. The rocks are part of the remains of Hadrian's Wall. The old guy is my Dad and he is trying to swipe one of the rocks. Fortunately, the rocks are all firmly cemented in place so he couldn't get it and he didn't get into deep trouble. The wall was built around 1900 years ago during the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian. It stretched for 117 kilometres right across a narrow bit of England. The idea was to keep the Scots and Picts from raiding farms on what was the extreme border of the empire. In places the wall was up to 3 metres wide and 6 metres high. There were forts roughly every Roman mile. One of these was at Denton and you can see the foundations of the small tower there. This is not the most impressive remnant of the wall, but it has the advantage that tour buses can park right next to it so Oldies don't have to walk through muddy paddocks to see it.

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