16th October Looking forward to my next podcasting foray when I will be visiting Ravenglass on the Cumbrian coast this coming Monday. The setting was a natual sheltered harbour, created by a the great sandbank formed where three rivers converged the Esk, Mite and Irt. Here the Romans established a fort as Hadrian’s Wall wasContinue reading “Glannoventa Roman Fort”
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Hard Knott Roman Fort
Quite the most majestically sited Roman structure in Britain (Britannia). Commanding a fabulous prospect of the Scafells and the wild heights at the head of Eskdale, the visitor can find not only internal structures including the headquarters building and granary but, outside the playing-card shaped fort walls, a bathhouse and a parade ground with aContinue reading “Hard Knott Roman Fort”
Mark Richards: Outdoor Writer 