Hadrian's Coastal Route: Ravenglass to Bowness-on-Solway

'Be part of history, walk a frontier lost for over fifteen hundred years.'

The Western Hadrianic Frontier of the Roman Empire is little known by the general public. Until recently the frontier was viewed as merely a series of forts with a fluid means of defence and administration between them, and the public was understandably drawn to the physical remains of Hadrian's Wall crossing from Bowness-on-Solway to Wallsend.

Archaeologists have always known different, and it is only now that they ar...