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Stone Hadrian's Wall stretches across rolling green fields with a cluster of trees in the background along the border of Scotland and England. Hadrian's Wall Hadrian's Wall: Housesteads Fort Hadrian's Wall: Housesteads Fort Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland National Park
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Stone Hadrian's Wall stretches across rolling green fields with a cluster of trees in the background along the border of Scotland and England.
Hadrian's Wall Hadrian's Wall, near the Scottish border in northern England.

Hadrian’s Wall

Roman wall, England, United Kingdom
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David J. Breeze
Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments, Scotland. Author of The Northern Frontiers of Roman Britain, Hadrian's Wall, and many others.
David J. Breeze
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Hadrian’s Wall, continuous Roman defensive barrier that guarded the northwestern frontier of the province of Britain from barbarian invaders. The wall extended from coast to coast across the width of northern Britain; it ran for 73 miles (118 km) from Wallsend (Segedunum) on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness on the Solway Firth in the west. The original plan was to construct a stone wall 10 Roman feet wide (a Roman foot is...

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