Easter Excursion Day 2 - Feeling Sheepish

Fortified by an early supper back at our AirBnB in Walton...

 We set out on a stroll past the ubiquitous pheasant...

... and down the Hadrian's Wall path just outside the village. We didn't really expect to find the Wall itself because Wikipedia said it was covered, but it was lambing season and the view was pretty:

We noticed that the sheep are all numbered ...

... apparently so that the ewes can recognize their lambs. (Those smart Cumbrian sheep!)

After walking along a public footpath through a farm yard, we eventually did locate the wall in what is now a dip in the ground:

The wall led to a waterfall...

a bridge...

... and a well-positioned imperative:

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: