Rampart remains of Bewcastle Roman Fort, located some six miles north of Hadrian’s Wall in Cumbria. Hexagonal in shape, the fort was built around 122 AD, and occupied until 343 AD. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Bewcastle #Cumbria

A photo of a colourful painted mural inside a museum. It is from the perspective of looking through a gap in a ruined wall, on which a shepherd sits with his sheepdog. Sheep rest around the Bewcastle Cross as a Roman cavalryman approaches. Rolling hills disappear into the distance, and an RAF jet flies low just above the horizon.

Mural in the museum at #Bewcastle, just north of Hadrian's Wall, showing the many phases of human activity there: from Roman (site of a six-sided fort!), through Anglian, Norman to modern (note the RAF on the horizon). It is a remote, captivating spot. #RomanFortThursday #Cumberland
📷 My own

2/2 The carvings and runic inscriptions are probably the handiwork of stonemasons from the Saxon monastery of Monkwearmouth in Northumbria. The figures are similar to Egyptian and Syrian icons from the same period.
#StandingStoneSunday #Bewcastle #Archaeology

1/2 The #Bewcastle Cross shaft (late 7th/early 8th C) stands within the old defences of a #Roman fort (Fanum Cocidi) on the Maiden Way Roman road linking Hadrian's Wall with #Birdoswald fort.
The column’s decoration refers to Christian Liturgy.
📸 my own
#StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology

#mima #Middlesbrough #WinifredNicholson ... flowers near #Bewcastle #Cumbria... an exhibition of Northern proddy mats well worth visiting... although this is obviously a painting

A tall standing stone, carved on all four sides. It is set in a graveyard.

The magnificent #Bewcastle Cross, late 7th or early 8th century. It is 14 feet six inches tall, and would have been taller still before it lost its head. #StandingStoneSunday #Cumberland
📷 My own, from 2020.