Hadrian's Wall Pilgrimage 2009. 

  • Hadrian's Wall Pilgrimage  2009.
    The next Hadrian's Wall Pilgrimage will take place from the 8th to 14th August 2009.
    The Pilgrimage will progress from west to east, starting at Moresby and working eastwards to South Shields.
  • The programme has been arranged in themes; the Cumbrian Coast, the Turf Wall, the Stanegate and Tyneside. The focus will be on new work on the Wall including the differences between the forts on the Cumbrian coast, the new information provided by geophysics, the research on the surviving earthworks and the discovery of pits on the berm and their implications. 
    The walks from Housteads to Steel Rigg and from Cawfields to Carvoran will be replaced by a walk from Garthside to Banks. Special lectures will be held considering Hadrian's Wall in literature and on the "souvenir" pans from Britain. There will be a special exhibition featuring the Staffordshire Moorlands Pan in Tullie House Museum,Carlisle.                                                                                              The Pilgrimage handbook will be prepared by Nick Hodgson. 
    Priority booking will be accorded to the members of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries and the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society as the two organising Societies.                                                                     Booking for Society members opens on the 1st July 2008 and will open non-Society members on the 1st October 2008
    Further details will be available on the websites of the two Societies.