Hadrian's Wall In 122 AD the Emperor Hadrian ordered the construction of a wall: running for 120 km between the Solway and the Tyne it was designed to establish the bounds of the Roman Empire ...

Hadrian’s Wall in Britain “and a host of other monuments ... The entry on Hadrian in the Augustan History, a fourth-century series of imperial biographies, describes a ruler fascinated ...

Hadrian's Wall was a Roman frontier built in the years AD 122-30 by order of the Emperor Hadrian. It was 73 miles long and ran from Wallsend-on-Tyne in the east to Bowness on the Solway Firth in ...

The photo above shows a wooden reconstruction of the wall and gatehouse at Vindolanda. The fort and the surrounding settlement lies to the south of Hadrian's Wall. Over the summer months there are ...

This episode delves deep into a forgotten history of slavery and exploitation ... origins – from African Romans who guarded Hadrian’s Wall to the black trumpeter of the Tudor courts.

Hadrian's Wall was commissioned by Emperor Hadrian in 122 AD and has since become a subject of much fascination. In the History Hit documentary, Hadrian’s Wall: Building the Wall, archaeologist ...

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