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Old 01-12-23, 01:44 PM   #2133
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Hadrian's wall?
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Arbeia upon Tyne?
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Not too far off.
Actually, in a previous life as noble Hadrian's chief Brittania architect, the fortess was the considered end piece of the wall with the 4 mile stretch of Tyne as a natural barrier, negating excess denarii construction of stone wall 'twixt Walls End and the fort on the southern side of the rivermouth...Phlipius Vincentius Dallus Map EDIT: those now-truncated walls on the fort probably extended across the
entire Southgate peninsula from Tyne to North Sea completing the barricade. The fort guarded the supply-by-sea for the entire garrisoned wall.
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