Travel Adventures - Your gateway to thousands of travel pictures from all over the world

United Kingdom

This picture shows A wall of Vercovicium fort. It was taken on a travel to Housesteads, United Kingdom, Europe. It is one of the 6707 of travel photographs you can find on Traveladventures.org. You can click on the picture to see more pictures of Housesteads. You can also send it as a free electronic postcard or download it for free, by following the links under the picture. Alternatively, you can follow the tags under the picture to find other travel pictures of a particular theme, or switch to another language. Enjoy your travel with pictures from all over the world!

Show on map

Locate Vercovicium Roman Fort on map

Other languages:

  • Bekijk deze pagina in het Nederlands |
  • Voir cette page en Français |
  • Vedere questa pagina in Italiano |
  • Ver esta página en Español |
  • 中文

Categories

Around the World in 80 Clicks - Thousands of pictures from around the world with free e-cards and downloads, travel advice, and much more

Picture of A wall of Vercovicium fort (Housesteads, United Kingdom)

Photograph of A wall of Vercovicium fort - United Kingdom - Europe

Wall of Vercovicium fort

Send image of A wall of Vercovicium fort as a free postcard
Download picture of A wall of Vercovicium fort
Purchase A wall of Vercovicium fort (United Kingdom)

The soldiers protecting the northern side of the Roman Empire lived in forts right on Hadrian's Wall; the best preserved is Housestead or Vercovicium.
Entrance to the grounds of Housesteads Roman Fort, as Vercovicium is called now, is through a very small museum, basically one room behind the ticket counter and souvenir shop. It has some good pictures of the area from the sky, allowing the visitor to leave with an idea of the outline of what she or he will see shortly. It was about to rain when I opened the wooden fence door. Dark clouds gathered from all directions, floating low above the open landscape that lay ahead of me. As I followed the outer wall of the fort, towards the southern gate, I wondered how the Romans must have liked the climate in their Britannia province.
Read more about: Vercovicium Roman Fort

Tags for this picture:
Bekijk deze pagina in het Nederlands | Voir cette page en Français | Vedere questa pagina in Italiano | Ver esta página en Español | 中文