Birdoswald

The drop down to the river was steep and we were glad to be going down rather than up. The river was bridged by a graceful single span footbridge made from the same iron as the Angel of the North. The path then wanders over the river plane past the footings of the roman bridge abutments at Willowford

which are high and dry in the field now as the river has moved with the centuries. Up to Willowford Farm, past another turret and onto a path following the Wall. Through a few fields over the railway to Poltross Burn Milecastle. What a setting!