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Originally Posted by shall1028
The point was an observation that Wallsend is not the only end of the wall---117 kilometres or so east is another end. i.e. "Wallsend is the western most end (or one end) of Hadrian's wall" rather than "Wallsend is the end of Hadrian's wall".[/IMG]
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But it ISN'T the western end of the wall. It IS the end of the wall. It was added when they extended the wall from Newcastle (my birthplace) a few miles down the road to Wallsend. The western end is either Barrow-in-Furness, or Carlisle. Take your choice. Situation is similar to Newcastle. It also extends in a lesser way down the west coast, less heralded that part.
Interesting story- they were dredging the edge of the Tyne (our river) to extend the ship building stocks when building a 250,000 tonner when they found the remains of a Roman Villa - it was 1969, so after allowing the archaeologists a VERY brief time to look at it, it was removed. (Ship building's gone now after centuries)
Probably 98% of Roman stuff has met a similar end in GB over the years. Only recently has there been a turn around. When I was a kid in the mid 70s I called on a mate in The Avenue, Wallsend and there was a 5 foot high 12 foot long part of the wall directly opposite, I at the time thought nothing about it, it wasn't protected or anything, it had always been there
The idiots in council removed it for a small car park in the 70s
The bloody car park isn't even used much !
Great country Canada, by the way. Lucky sod, living there !
