The Antonine Wall was constructed from banks of earth and had deep defensive ditches. It was briefly the the most northern border of the Roman Empire. For the Romans, high walls served more than ...

Antoninus Pius was the man who gave his name to the Antonine ... extending Roman Britannia north from Hadrian's Wall. The wall was designed as a frontier for the empire, and a barrier to raiding ...

In The Antonine Wall, David J. Breeze, author of a number of books on Roman Britain ... and its several functions (since it was probably not merely intended to mark the "edge" of the Empire), provides ...

2012 Frontiers of the Roman Empire: Hadrian's Wall. Map 1: Skinburness (north) to Maryport (south) 2012 Frontiers of the Roman Empire: Hadrian's Wall. Map 2: Cardurnock (west) to Willowholme, Carlisle ...

103-118 (16 pages) Remains of a first-century CE wall segment and a tower base uncovered in the Russian ... Artillery in Judaea from Hasmonean to Roman Times. In D.H. French and C.S. Lightfoot eds.

It was the Roman Empire’s way of imposing peace in a hostile land Hadrian’s Wall was a 73 mile barrier stretching from coast to coast, splitting the warlike north of Britain from the more ...