Wednesday 31st July I had ordered a full English breakfast for 7:30 am and this time it certainly was one! Excellent food and again the accommodation all round was excellent value. I was only expecting to need to walk about 10 miles today so this would be my shortest day of the walk. As soon as you are back on the route again after Greencarts there is a short stretch of wall, and then within another mile or so you arrive at the Roman fort of Brocolitia. There is nothing to see now of this fort, except for the mound of earth under which it lies, but it has apparently been excavated. However, just to the side of it is the remains of a Mithraeum, a temple dedicated to the cult of Mithraeus which was quite
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