This is the view from the marina at Hebburn looking across the river towards Wallsend and the Segedunum Roman Museum which has been built on the site of the Walls End at Wallsend !
Segedunum Roman Fort is the eastern most fort on the Wall and this part of the site is dedicated to it. Roman history in this country is one of the most interesting periods of time to study simply because of the vastness and wealth of their empire, the fascination of the folk and their life’s habits who ultimately lived and died during that time and of course the wonderful archaeology they leave behind for us. The sheer majesty of their architecture and the scale of it. The brutality that went alongside it all. Their legal system, the elections, the different levels of society, their entertainment. Virtually everything they had can be drawn as a parallel to our society today! The ultimate willingness of the locals to welcome the habits and living standards of Rome’s own people eventually helped this tiny little outpost which lay at the eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall become a major defence frontier. Now, of course, it is a major tourist attraction and rightly so. While other sites along the Wall were being excavated and finds were being dug up by their hundreds poor little Segedunum lay almost lost because of a total lack of funds to do anything about it.
Tower and Restaurant
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