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King Arthur's Well (Walltown Gap)
Trip No.143 Entry No.2 Date Added: 12th Jul 2019
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2019. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 4 Access 4
King Arthur's Well (Walltown Gap) submitted by Anne T on 12th Jul 2019. This is an image taken from the National Library of Scotland's 1895 OS map for Thirwall and Wall Town, dated 1895, and licensed for re-use under Creative Commons. Link: https://maps.nls.uk/copyright.html. The location of King Arthur's Well is marked by the red arrow, although if it exists is well hidden under turf and reeds. The blue arrow marks the location NY 68041 66551, where a spring emerges further down the hillside. The green arrow marks the location of another well which feeds drinking t...
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Log Text: King Arthur's Well, Walltown Crags: Whilst this well may now be destroyed or lost, the scenery here is fantastic, and it was well worth coming out to look.
We were unable to find this holy well, despite having the GPS to guide us to the spot. However, we did see signs of reeds and tall grasses where the water might have pooled and flowed.
On the way up to the nick in the crags where the well is located, there is water emerging from the hillside at NY 68041 66551, which runs in a small stream down the slope, feeding two drinking troughs in the field below. We did visit after a period of prolonged dry weather, so wondered if the water emerges from higher up the hill after wet weather.
Hadrian's Wall (Turret 44b)
Trip No.143 Entry No.3 Date Added: 11th Jul 2019
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hadrian's Wall (Turret 44b) submitted by Anne T on 11th Jul 2019. Standing almost at the western edge of the turret, with the crags dropping down sharply, just off shot to the left, looking north across the turret. Photo by Andrew T
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Log Text: Turret 44b, Hadrian's Wall: Located on the crag above King Arthur's Well, this is a lovely spot. We had difficulty in locating the holy well, so whilst I continue to search for the it and see if I could find any structure or water course, Andrew ascended the steps to the top of the crag, and came back about 20 minutes later.
This turret is on the Hadrian’s Wall path, which runs almost due east-west here. It is in a very pretty spot. Even with it being a Monday afternoon, and a very warm day, there were lots of walkers here. Many passed me on the paved section of path but none appeared to stop and look at the turret, as no-one seemed to linger at this point. Perhaps they had already seen too many turrets around here - there are certainly a lot of them!
Hadrian's Wall (Poltross Burn)
Trip No.143 Entry No.1 Date Added: 11th Jul 2019
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hadrian's Wall (Poltross Burn) submitted by Anne T on 11th Jul 2019. Standing at the south western corner of the milecastle/small fort, looking towards its north eastern corner.
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Log Text: Poltross Burn Milecastle: We last visited this site on 27th October 2013, and it hasn’t’ changed at all. Andrew, in typical engineering fashion, went round and talked about the offsets and revetted construction of this small fort. It’s layout is remarkably easy to read.
Andrew recalled reading about a house built right on top of the wall, but we were unable to find it.