Easter Excursion Day 2 - Hadrian's Wall Part 1

We chose Walton as a vacation destination so I could cross Hadrian's Wall off my bucket list of places to see in the UK. Walton takes its name from the Wall that apparently ran through the town, but Wikipedia informed us that the surviving bits of wall along the Hadrian's Wall Path in our area are now covered with dirt to preserve them, so we drove 30 minutes east to the National Trust's Housestead's Roman Fort in Northumbria, where views of the Wall and surrounding countryside are spectacular. I will let the pictures do the talking...

By the time we returned from our little hike along the wall, the Roman Fort, Vercovicium, was crawling with school children, so we left much of it unexplored. Compared to better preserved Roman ruins in Turkey, Greece and Israel, there is not really much to see in the Fort itself except for a gatehouse, which--if memory serves--had been converted into a bastle house in the 17th century by a family of cattle "reivers":

The fort is also known for its exceptionally well-preserved toilets: