All this graphically proclaimed the might of Rome ... tribes north of the wall were, however, tenuous. Antoninus Pius was the man who gave his name to the Antonine Wall of 142 AD, which runs ...

MUM: But eventually, the soldiers that guarded it were needed elsewhere, to defend parts of the Empire closer to Rome. So the Antonine Wall was abandoned. The Antonine Wall was constructed from ...

North of Hadrian's Wall ... Small settlements near the forts would thrive on the cross border trade and the revenues from supplying the troops with local goods. Soon after the Emperor Antonine ...