Stanegate

Stanegate ran east-west across the narrow neck of northern Britain between Coria at Corbridge and Luguvalium at Carlisle, on the line where Hadrian would later build his wall. It was laid out in the early second century under Trajan, on the line of earlier Flavian forts at Vindolanda and Corbridge. For a generation it was the frontier road of Roman Britain before there was a frontier: a string of forts along its length kept watch on what lay north. When the wall went up around AD 122, Stanegate dropped a little south of the new line and continued as a supply road to the wall's garrisons. The modern A69 partly follows it.