Running for seventy-three miles, the Wall makes use of ridges and crags, particularly Whin Sill, and enables a good view to the north. Built by Roman troops, the Wall is estimated to have been ...

See Hadrian’s Wall with a Local Guide This easy 2-hour walk comes with a knowledgeable local guide who will explore the ...

Hadrian’s Wall provides a rock solid framework for exploring northern England’s countryside and aspects of Britain’s Roman history.

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 ...

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 ...

For 23 years, between A.D. 142 and 165, Hadrian’s Wall actually wasn’t the Roman Empire’s northern frontier. After Hadrian’s death, his successor, Antoninus Pius, reinvaded Scotland.

During excavations of the barracks at Segedunum on Hadrian’s Wall, the mystery of where the horses were kept was solved. “We had never been able to identify stables in Roman forts because we ...