We started the day by visiting Housesteads which is the biggest and most impressive fort remains on the wall.
We spent some time in the museum which was good. Lots of finds
The history of the wall and the Roman fortification is quite fascinating.
Then it was onto Hexham.
It had a Saxon Crypt. The Saxons didn't know how to cut stones so they re used a lot of Roman stone and you could see lots of inscribed roman stones in the crypt.
Geoff had two lunches and then we walked through the park. Then in was on to Corbridge. These ruins are in quite good condition and you can see the street pattern and original paved streets etc. In the 300 years they were here they had rebuilt the town several times.
Then we got sidetracked looking for another Saxon church at Whittingham. We drove off the track but could see no Saxon part of the church.
We stayed overnight in Alnwick. Very friendly hotel owner who had children in Australia.
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