Exploring Sycamore Gap in Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- The lovely Julia has always wanted to go to see the amazing Sycamore Gap in Northumberland, so as part of our trip 'Up North' we decided to take Robert Croser and Cheryl Craggs along with us to Hadrian's Wall to find it.
The Sycamore Gap Tree is by Hadrian's Wall, between Milecastle 39 and Crag Lough, about 2 miles west of Housesteads Roman Fort in Northumberland. This section of the wall follows the edge of a cliff - an outcrop of the Whin Sill - and several sharp dips in it caused by melting glacial waters. The tree stands within one of these dips with the cliff and wall rising dramatically either side of it. The wall and adjacent land, including the site of the tree, are owned by the National Trust.
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Such a wonderful experience with such good friends. Many thanks to Richard, Cheryl, and Rob for making it it so special!
It was a joy to have you along Julia!
I've just scratched the surface of watching all you videos Richard, but this my favorite so far. Thanks again for showing us your great country.
Great fun with the fab four
Thanks Ann!
Glad you got this recorded.
I can scarcely believe that this lovely living monument is no longer as it should be.. Cruelly taken and much bereaved. RIP Sycamore of the Gap 💜
Everyone here around the North East and Northumberland is just absolutely devastated by what’s happened.
5:37 So funny where we all look knackered! Such a wonderful day, and wonderful friends new and old to share it with! x
Thanks for coming and making it special!
Arr Hadrian’s Wall. Love it. We had a holiday in Northumberland about 15 years ago and visited a number of the major stopping points along the wall. It really captured my imagination. I still think the best bit was the latrines in one of the forts. I can’t wait for a holiday!
Happy birthday Kerry!
@@RichardVobes Thank you 😊
The Wall at last! I watched this with a big smile of delight all the way through (and strangely slightly damp eyes...). Great choice of backing track too. You have GOT to do more in Northumberland. You haven't scratched the surface yet of what delights there are to explore!
I know - we need to go back and have some fun with the walks and places in Northumberland. Maybe in the Autumn after the summer holidays - I will have to go alone because Julia will have a baby to look after.
@@RichardVobes oh I'm sure something could be arranged...
I do understand how that is tree is often photographed, it is a coincidence of nature. Well done, I did enjoy that 👍
So pleased you enjoyed the video.
Thanks Richard for that footage. Speechless that we lost this monument
What a great video, I can see why you had fun editing this one - joyous!
Robert is right, the weather adds to the atmosphere!
Thanks Matthew - yes a great walk - thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience. :)
Wow, amazing tree. It looked cold there, no wonder you were running about ha ha....lovely video again, a place I have never visited, so thankyou.
My pleasure - it is truly worth a visit!
With the winds, gales and exposure in that particular place, how on earth has that beautiful tree survived...it's obviously a rugged old beast!
Thanks to all
Dave
It is amazing it has survived. I gather there were others at one point and they were cleared away.
I just really can not understand why anyone would put a dislike to any of your vids Richard, they are so informative, different certianly not boring, any chance to do the the Malvern Hills or Kinver Edge at all please, thanks again for all your hard work
Thanks you - Malvern Hills - I have added it to the list! Sounds great!
thank you again, Cheryl and Robert, for the loverly tour up north. thank you, Julia and Richard, for taking us with you!
Our pleasure, of course!
I love the lovely Julia and the wall is nice too.
We all love the lovely Julia!
loved it!
Never been up that way - must put it on my list. Thanks both 👍
It is definitely worth exploring!
Wow. This has convinced me l must visit !!! Thanks Robert Croser for pointing this vid out. There is a letter from a Roman soldier who was stationed on the wall to his mother in the museum of London, thanking her for the socks she sent him.
I wish my mother had sent up sock when we filmed it,
Thanks for the great video!
My pleasure - thanks for watching!
That was a great explore Richard, I've never seen people so happy to see the tree haha. Glad you all enjoyed yourselves a joy to watch, love ya shorts 😂👍👍👍
Hahahaha - we did have a hoot - must do more of these type of videos. Thanks Damian.
Thank you guys, a place I would love to visit. Maybe one day.
Oh you must!
Nothing like being a Kid again Richard,lol . Great fun, must go to a Hadrian’s wall.
I am a big kid!
What an amazing place. Hope to visit one day. Great video.
It is truly wonderful - thanks for watching.
Walking on top of the actual wall is frowned on now because of recent collapses (naughty Richard 😆) In fact they have planted clumps of very large grass on top to deter it. It's a great place to visit and if you greet those passing, you're chat with people from all over the world.
Wonderful video. Looks very cold. Love the wall. No climbing now.
Me? Climbing? Never!
I listen to your opinion and like editorials . Came across this vid on my feed . So sad that it was felled .
Maybe do a vlog on it .
Thankyou .
Lovly place now a memorial to the times .
Hi, I just found this vid. I'm so upset that someone has now cut this tree down, I never managed to see it. I can't work out why someone would go to so much trouble to fell such an iconic tree, but it has happened now, and I'm so glad I found this vid so I can see what it was like and get a feeling for how happy it made you guys when you found it.
Lovely video.....
Thanks so much!
Just seeing Vobey Wan Kenobi hug the tree was worth my $ contribution.
Hahahahahah - thanks so much. I did it just for you!
Fabulous
Thanks Cheryl.
Great video as always Richard, walked the length of the Wall with my daughter a couple of years ago. This brings back great memories, and was one of my favourite bits of the trip! 😁
Thanks David - I do need to walk more of the walk!
@@RichardVobes It's an incredible experience, we did it over 6 days. Would love to see a Bald Explorer video of the whole trail!
OIEEE! YOU! GET OFF THAT WALL! 🙂
Oops, sorry mister!
Lovely site indeed'
Thanks very much
Wow! 😁 I need to go here!...
It is well work the journey!
Ah Richard. I typed in to search for syamore gap and here you are ❤ shame u went in winter though with no leaves
Richard your a treasure.
Thanks very much! :)
When I read you were visiting the sycamore gap I thought it was going to be some local farmers teeth 🙈but it turned out to be a very nice tree , it’s grim up north 🤭
It was windy up north but lovely!
Marvellous video with Robert,Julia and Cheryl its a fantastic location Hadrian's Wall and history and finds spans the entire occupation period and superb place to visit if your interested in roman military they had regulations for troops when it came to height the minimum requirement was around 5ft'7...and based on Skeletons found they tend to be of average height . .also the term "roman" is a bit misleading when talking in relation to here and the wall for example.as most troops actually came from all over the vast roman empire The forts held approx 12-15,000 soldiers from diverse parts of the Roman Empire - from Syria to Belgium even to Libya..and if I remember correct out of all burials found here only one through dna was traced back to Rome.i believe it may have been a women found buried in a lead coffin in an unopened sarcophagus found I think in Spitalfields London as was the first unopened one ever found,i in 2017 at Hadrian's wall they found many items relating to an early previously unknown cavalry garrison on the wall and what is really interesting is where did roman cavalry keep their horses....as no stables have ever been found.ive written on the subject before its strange as evidence is difficult to find it here is link to an article I have bookmarked on the subject lol www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/chesters-roman-fort-and-museum-hadrians-wall/history/absence-of-stables/
Thanks Shaun for all the wonderful extra information - it is greatly appreciated.
The Lovely Julia is, well, err, Lovely
Yes I know!
When you filmed this could anyone have imagined the craziness to come? And now some low-life has cut down the tree.
So lucky to have produced a video before those pharking vandals cut it down. I hope they get 20 years in gaol.
Cut down this morning.
Why are you wearing capri's richard?
Because they are sort of shorts. It was sunny when we started out. :)
The farmers are different up there,so when they encounter he of no hair! They shout hey stop acting the fool,whey hey like man now get off my wall!!!
Hahahahaha - that they do!
That's funny
am gutted 1723 to 2023 rip my fav tree
did they not film robin hood prince of theives in this area ?
Yes, I believe they did.
The Wall is a protected, listed landmark and a World Heritage site. You are NOT allowed to walk on the top! You wouldn't dream of walking on top of Buckingham Palace!
I might dream of that actually!
Someone’s just cut it down. Absolutely disgusting 😡
Or 'Gap' as it is now known.
did you know Richard . Publius Aelius Hadrianus who built the wall declared his lover Antonius after he drowned during a boat trip on the Nile a God and was the last installed pagan god of the roman world so popular was the cult that sprung around him he gave another emerging cult a run for its money that being of a chap called Jesus. Hadrian founded a city and named after his favourite Antinoopolis (Mallawi.Eygpt). and whilst visiting the Colossi of Memmon which are 2 massive statues of the pharaoh Amonhotep III west of Luxor to mark this visit he had 4 epigrams inscribed by the roman female poet Julia Balbila.The first two tell the story of the mythical king memmon of Etheopia who was killed by Achillies at Troy and was made a immortal by Zeus..its a work to flatter Hadrian and Sabina. the 3rd is a dedication to the Muses (goddesses).and fourth a dedication to Balbila...after she wrote we know nothing more about her she simply vanishes,Antinous and Hadrian are the most famous gay couple in Roman history he was if I remember correct although being married the only openly gay emperor. what is surprising even though he created Antonius to god statue...when it came to Christian unlike other emperors. he was very tolerant stating to a governor who asked what to do with them he replied that merely being a Christian was not enough for action against them to be taken, they must also have committed some illegal act.not like Nero who used them to light his garden at night...like human candles...…..actually that's a myth actually there is no references to the persecution of Christians by the Roman state prior to Nero and the great fire of rome and did he Fiddle...highly unlikely as the fiddle didn't even exist in Ancient Rome.did you visit VINDOLANDA where they found the amazing tablets written by its inhabitants from around between AD 85 and 130.i think they might even still have an on going excavation there.if you did will there be a video..
We didn't go to Vinderloo land but hope to next time I am up. I like a nice curry. But seriously, I am overwhelmed by your extensive knowledge!
I write stuff now and then when people want detectorist finds identified i really like researching things.especially if its local history related
Nobody mentioned that wretched Robin of the Hood film?
Why would we?
@@RichardVobes it was featured in that film. The Kevin Costner one in the 80s....early 90s?
Ah it was in leaf
you who cut it down, made a big mistake
Some sick individual just put a chainsaw to this 300 year old tree 😡
Kids are dying, it’s just one single tree
Typical MORONIC response! 🙄
there aint no ancient ruins in the whole world where you are allowed to climb upon. a feller your age should know!!!!
RIP
Batman and Julia, err OK.
batman? Did I miss something?
@@RichardVobes You running down the hill with your coat flying!
wheres robin hood ??
talking of romans I've backed TACITUS to win the Kentucky derby tonight in America...8/1 lol
Er ... ok, if you say so! :)
Tactitus came 3rd lol..the race was given to the second horse Country House after winner got disqualified.first time its happened in the races history
Whoever cut the tree down, should have their fingers cut off.
Use the felled timber to build a gibbet and hang them on it as a new landmark.
An unnecessary and extremely brutal punishment. Who are you, Henry VIII?
:'(