Segedunum
Wallsend, North Tyneside
At Segedunum, the Roman fort at the end of Hadrian’s Wall, the museum explains the landscape development from the Roman period through to the present. A series of visual representations and museums displays illustrate not only the construction of the fort but also its decline and the subsequent construction of an eighteenth/nineteenth century industrial landscape complete with coal mines and shipbuilding and industrial housing, that was in turn demolished and changed. The river Tyne is a constant in all this but every thing else changes through time. The juxtaposition of an early-eighteenth century pit head with the remains of Hadrian’s Wall makes the nature of the change both vivid and memorable. TSH
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