The most northerly town in the Empire
Jul. 6th, 2025 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustA week ago, D. was with us, which is the perfect excuse to take the day off and do something fun. I remembered that fifteen months ago, we had deferred an excusion. We had planned to celebrate durham_rambler's birthday on the day following the day itelf; then events had intervened. Life owed me a trip to Corbridge.
Not, on this occasion, the modern own, but the Roman site just beyond it. I had visited it long ago, and have been thinking of it since as a Roman fort, though I see that the current presentation emphasises the town which outlasted the army presence. I was right, though, in remembering the magnificent granaries which areits outstanding feature:
durham_rambler denied ever having been there before, and before our visit I thought he had simply forgotten: but the place itself was completely new to him, so perhaps I had been there with someone else (probably D.). This was reason enough to go there now, but I had another reason: back at the beginning of last year, an episode ofDigging for Britain in which the excavators had unearthed a Gallo-Roman dodecahedron. These are rare and extraordinary objects, but Corbridge has one (in fact, at the time, Corbridge had three on display, but never mind) and I wanted to see it.
And now I have:
I wadn't disappointed. Then we went and had lunch at the Rat at Anick, which was fun too.
durham_rambler's birthday on the day following the day itelf; then events had intervened. Life owed me a trip to Corbridge.Not, on this occasion, the modern own, but the Roman site just beyond it. I had visited it long ago, and have been thinking of it since as a Roman fort, though I see that the current presentation emphasises the town which outlasted the army presence. I was right, though, in remembering the magnificent granaries which areits outstanding feature:
durham_rambler denied ever having been there before, and before our visit I thought he had simply forgotten: but the place itself was completely new to him, so perhaps I had been there with someone else (probably D.). This was reason enough to go there now, but I had another reason: back at the beginning of last year, an episode ofDigging for Britain in which the excavators had unearthed a Gallo-Roman dodecahedron. These are rare and extraordinary objects, but Corbridge has one (in fact, at the time, Corbridge had three on display, but never mind) and I wanted to see it.And now I have:
I wadn't disappointed. Then we went and had lunch at the Rat at Anick, which was fun too.
