ABSTRACT

Several major issues remain around the eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall, due partly to the dense urban fabric of Tyneside. These concern the spacing of the interval structures in the first seven Wall miles, the course of the mural barrier in Newcastle, the purpose of the Roman bridge over the river Tyne (Pons Aelius) and the original eastern terminus of the Wall. This paper retraces the anchor points of our knowledge before zooming in to examine the Wall’s northern approach of the Tyne bridge and considering a possible new departure. Seeing the crucial role of river crossings in determining not just the line of the Wall but also the successive work sectors, the question is raised how far the Wall on Tyneside may originally have been planned to mirror the situation in the west. Before long, however, the project was overhauled, and effectively redesigned, in consequence of the so-called ‘fort decision’ and all the related changes, one of them concerning the Wall’s eastern terminus. Understanding the infancy of Roman Britain’s mural barrier requires exploring the eventful context in which this imperial prestige project took shape, got mixed up conceptually and was set right again around AD 122.

摘要

哈德良长城的东端周围仍然存在一些主要问题，部分原因是泰恩赛德（Tyneside）的市区密集。这些问题涉及墙头七英里中间隔结构的间距，纽卡斯尔壁画屏障的走向，罗马泰恩河上的桥梁的目的（Pons Aelius）和墙的原始东端。本文将追溯我们知识的锚点，然后再放大以检查华尔街在泰恩桥的北端进近并考虑可能的新起点。看到过河不仅在确定隔离墙的线而且在确定后续工作部门方面都起着至关重要的作用，因此提出了一个问题，即最初计划将泰恩赛德隔离墙规划为反映西方情况的距离。但是不久之后，该项目进行了大修，并根据所谓的“堡垒决定”和所有相关更改进行了有效的重新设计，其中一项涉及隔离墙的东端。要了解罗马不列颠壁垒的初期状态，需要探索这个帝国威望项目初具规模，概念上相互混淆并在公元122年左右重新设定的多事背景。