Stanegate
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The Stanegate, or "stone road" (Anglo-Saxon), was an important Roman road in England. Its route was west-to-east, approximately from Carlisle to Corbridge. Proceeding from the west to the east, from Carlisle the Stanegate runs along the north Bank of the River Eden toward Irthington.[1] Thence the Stanegate proceeds along the left bank of the River Irthing toward Gilsland, and from there thrrough the Tyne Valley to Newcastle-on-Tyne.
The route of Hadrian's Wall was based upon the road, Hadrian's Wall performing a function of protecting Roman traffic flow along the Stanegate. The length of Hadrian's Wall was similar to the Stanegate, approximately 117 kilometres, spanning the width of Britain; the wall incorporated the earlier Agricola's Ditch[2] and was constructed primarily to prevent unwanted immigration from the north, not as a fighting line for a major invasion.[3]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Robin George Collingwood, Roman, Britain and the English settlements, Biblo & Tannen Publishers ISBN 0819611603
- ^ C.Michael Hogan (2007) Hadrian's Wall, ed. A. Burnham, The Megalithic Portal
- ^ Stephen Johnson (2004) Hadrian's Wall, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc, 128 pages, ISBN 0713488409
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