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    A Guide to the Roman Wall
    A Guide to the Roman Wall
    A Guide to the Roman Wall
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    A Guide to the Roman Wall

    By R. G. Collingwood

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    This early work by R. G. Collingwood was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'A Guide to the Roman Wall' is an informative essay on the history and use of Hadrian's Wall. Robin George Collingwood was born on 22nd February 1889, in Cartmel, England. He was the son of author, artist, and academic, W. G. Collingwood. He was greatly influenced by the Italian Idealists Croce, Gentile, and Guido de Ruggiero. Another important influence was his father, a professor of fine art and a student of Ruskin. He published many works of philosophy, such as Speculum Mentis (1924), An Essay on Philosophic Method (1933), and An Essay on Metaphysics (1940).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 14, 2016
    ISBN9781473359628
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      A GUIDE TO THE ROMAN WALL

      PART I INTRODUCTION

      FOR THREE CENTURIES and more the Roman Wall has been recognised as one of the most remarkable things in the British Isles. It is an object of pilgrimage to travellers from all parts of the world, and the books about it would fill a small library. In the past its visitors have been mostly historians and antiquaries, and it is for their use that previous descriptions of it have generally been designed. But the Wall is now attracting year by year an increasing number of people who, without any claim to being archaeologists, take an interest in monuments of the past; and so happily does it combine imaginative appeal with varied and picturesque scenery that the visitor must be hard to please who does not think his visit well spent. For many of these visitors, Bruce’s Handbook is too elaborate, and Miss Mothersole’s Hadrian’s Wall, with its charming illustrations, too much of a library book; they want something simpler, cheaper, and more compact, and it is for them that this little guide has been written. Subsequent editions, while retaining the scale of the first, have been extensively corrected so as to include new information; the same process has now been repeated (1955).

      ACCESS

      To see the Wall you must walk; but you never need walk more than a mile from the point at which you have left your car or bicycle. Newcastle and Carlisle are the starting-points for people arriving by train, whether from north or south; in both it is easy to buy maps and books, and to see museums—the Black Gate at Newcastle and Tullie House at Carlisle—containing large and interesting collections of inscribed and sculptured stones, pottery, and other relics. But the visitor who does not set out to be an antiquary will put the Wall first and the museums second, to be seen after the Wall itself, if then. The part that is most worth seeing is the section, 25 miles long, lying between Halton and Birdoswald; and of that section the really spectacular part lies between the North Tyne at Chesters and the Tipalt Burn at Thirlwall. Here, and here alone, the actual Wall stands high above ground for miles together; elsewhere the earthworks that accompany it are plain enough, but the Wall itself is seldom visible.

      The cyclist or walking tourist who wants to see most in the shortest time will go by train or by ’bus from Newcastle to Humshaugh, changing at Hexham, or from Carlisle to Gilsland, armed with the Hexham sheet of the one-inch Ordnance map. Let us suppose that he begins at Humshaugh. He will visit the Roman bridge over the North Tyne and the fort of Chesters and follow the main road westward to the top of Limestone Bank, and so past Carrawburgh to Sewingshields, where the Wall follows the heights on the right while the road diverges to the left. Nine miles from Humshaugh, he reaches Housesteads, and here he will see enough to occupy him till it is time to think of his night’s lodging. If he has time and energy, it is well worth his while to follow the Wall on foot from Housesteads to Cawfields, for here the scenery and the Wall are both at their best; or, if he is bicycling, to turn aside from the main road once or twice along the branch roads that lead to the right. Next day he can visit the Haltwhistle Burn fort, Great Chesters, the Nine Nicks of Thirlwall, the bridge at Willowford and Birdoswald. These two days will show him all the finest things on the Wall, and

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