Sunday, May 3, 2015

Juxtaposition Pictures

Friday James and I took the Metro (subway) up to Segedunum.  It is an old Roman fort near the end of Hadrian's wall that would have been built around 122 AD.  The fort has been excavated and laid out to show where the building used to be.  The fort housed 600 infantry and calvary soldiers as well as the commander, his wife, supporting personnel.

The area in front (the big square outline)is the commander's house (it looks like it had a courtyard), to the left is the calvary barracks and to the right and under and across the road were the infantry barracks.  The hospital was in the back by the trees and the bath house has been rebuild and is the white building back left.  It looks like a very small area to house 600+ men and their horses.  James and I spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out how it would work.

Here is another view of the wall turret not far from our hotel.  It is interesting to see the old wall from 1000 years ago with the modern building in the background.


It is very different here.  Most things we need are within walking distance.  To get further afield there are buses, the Metro and the railway.  To get to Segedunum we walked across the street to the Metro, hopped on, and got off a block away from the fort.  To get to London yesterday, we walked to the railway station, about a 7 minute walk, we hopped on the train and landed at Kings Cross a three hours later.  To my aunt's from there we took a couple of other trains and walked to her place.