BRUNTON TURRET Traditional Cache
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A driveby at the entrance to Brunton Turret site – parking in layby.
Along Hadrian’s Wall at Brunton Turret there is compelling evidence that things didn't always go according to plan. Perhaps the Romans weren't quite as ruthlessly efficient as we've been led to believe. The first job the Romans had to do to build this wall was to send their surveyors out as advance parties to mark out exactly where the wall was going to be built. They were accompanied by parties that started to install a ten foot foundation, ready for the wall.
Now because this turret was made ready for a ten foot wall, the turret builders built the turret with two little bits of ten foot wide wall on either side. But then the plan seemed to change. You can see the ten foot wide wing wall for the turret, and down at the bottom, there's still the remains of the nice new ten foot wide foundation for the ten foot wide wall, butting up against the turret. But you can also see that the wall that was built later was actually built to a much narrower gauge. The reason for this remains a mystery, but there's obviously been a major change of plan. It could have been because the stone was running out, or possibly because the Romans were in such a hurry thanks to wars up here on the northern frontier that they really needed to get the job finished very quickly.
There's one other possibility of course. The Roman governor, Aulus Platorius Nepos, who'd been charged by Hadrian with the job of building the Wall, had the end of his governorship coming up and maybe he wanted to get the job finished for maximum prestige.
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Ybt vg orgjrra gjb gerr gehaxf.
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