If we examine the north gateway from the north side it is clear that one of the piers has been partly overthrown when the enemy was in occupation. Something has been inserted in the bar-holes, and the whole Wall has been levered out. This would make the arch collapse. In Severus's reconstruction the pier has been left thus, pushed out of place, and has been built round. Severus's reconstructions are much better work than some of the later ones. Still walking on the Wall, I came to Cuddy's Crag (Cuddy is a pet name for St. Cuthbert), the Wall maintaining its full breadth of 8 feet and a height of 5 or 6 feet for a long distance. The picture which faces page 28 shows the Wall as seen from Cuddy's Crag, looking eastwards, along the way we have come. Wade's Road is seen like a white ribbon to the left of the trees. Just below it is the gateway through the Wall referred to on page 122. The hollowed line on the extreme left of the picture, near the horizon, where the Wall makes a great dip down, is Busy Gap. Over Cuddy's Crag we come to Rapishaw Gap, where the Wall becomes too steep and rough for {126} walking on. Apparently the mat of turf which covers it elsewhere could not grow on this steep slope. Just here I came across a sad sight--a new-born lamb with its eyes pierced, evidently by a kite or some such bird of prey. Next come Hotbank Crags, from the top of which Crag Lough comes grandly into view. To the south of Wade's Road, Barcombe is now prominent, covered with heather, still in its sombre stage, and with the Long Stone standing out sharply against the sky. Beyond Barcombe the green platform of the fort of Vindolanda, at Chesterholm, can be distinguished. Crag Lough is one of the most beautiful natural features along the line of the Wall. Lying for its whole length immediately under the steep basalt crags, it has the advantage of Broomlee and Greenlee, which spread themselves out in the plain. Crag Lough is reached through Milking Gap, which lies between the Lake and the farm-house of Hotbank. I tried to get rooms at Hotbank when I was painting along the Wall, but the family was too large to allow of their taking visitors. There is a mile-castle in Milking Gap; and thence the Wall climbs the slope to the summit of Highshield Crag, where the columns of basalt are particularly striking. [Illustration: CRAG LOUGH FROM MILKING GAP, WITH WINSHIELDS IN THE DISTANCE. THE WALL IS VISIBLE ON THE HEIGHTS ABOVE THE LOUGH, AND ALSO RUNNING OVER WINSHIELDS.] In the picture facing this page, the Wall is seen {127} running along the top of Highshield Crag above the Lough, having passed through the little wood. In the distance it is seen taking its farther course over Winshields, the highest hill that it traverses. The basaltic columns overhanging the Lough, and Hotbank farm-house in the distance, are seen in the picture which faces page 112.