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 | | We walked both east and west along the road on the first leg of the official Wall Path, admiring the wide sand beach, listening to the call of birds and stopping to smell the flowers. |
 | | A few more twists and turns in the road, a few more hedgerows and ancient farmhouses, and we were at our first serious stopping point: Birdoswald Roman Fort, one of 16 forts that were built along the wall. |
 | | Our next stop was the Roman Army Museum, five minutes down the road, which the kids loved for its scale models and somewhat hokey but life-size figures of Roman soldiers and citizens, and I loved for its display of ancient Roman footwear (amazingly well preserved in the peat bogs). |
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