East Turret 48A at Willowford
Thursday, February 7th, 2008About 10 minutes walk from us is the East Turret 48A. its about 100 yards west of Gilsland Primary School on the west of the village.
The turrets are simple stone watchtowers and were built to a standard plan. The Turrets were built first and had a section of Wall built on each side. The Wall was build later to butt up to these sections, The Romans could use these as defensive watchtowers as the Wall was built.
Interestingly not all of Hadrian’s Wall was built to 3m wide. East of Willowford the Wall is 2m wide on a 3m wide foundation. You can see all of this along the section of Wall to Willowford.