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    Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Hadriani, also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Aelium in Latin) is a former defensive fortification of the...
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    Hadrian's Wall Path is a long-distance footpath in the north of England, which became the 15th National Trail in 2003. It runs for 84 miles (135 km), from...
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    Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth. Built some twenty years after Hadrian's Wall to the south, and intended to supersede it, while it was garrisoned...
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    associated with Hadrian's Wall in England. Unique on any Roman frontier, it runs practically from coast to coast to the south of the wall. It was built...
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    Green's Coastal Lives, both for ITV. In 2020, Green began recording Hadrian's Wall with Robson Green a 3-part documentary following him walking the 80...
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    A turret was a small watch tower, incorporated into the curtain wall of Hadrian's Wall. The turrets were normally spaced at intervals of one third of a...
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    electrification of Hadrian's Wall is unlikely to change" (Ijeh 2014); A cartoon: "Hadrian's Wall Extension Plan" showing an extension of Hadrian's Wall around the...
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    found at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. Hadrian's great-nephew, Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator, from Barcino (Barcelona) would become Hadrian's colleague...
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    Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it pre-dated. Archaeological excavations of the...
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    construction of 118 kilometres (73 mi) long Hadrian's Wall in the early 120s on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian consolidated the Roman line of defence (called...
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    the 'Frixagi', once stationed at Vindobala (at modern Rudchester) on Hadrian's Wall. Efforts have sometimes been made to connect this auxiliary unit with...
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    wrote that, "This mighty wall [Hadrian's wall] of four score miles [130 km] in length is only exceeded by the Chinese Wall, which makes a considerable figure...
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    139 AD. In 142 AD, construction began on the Antonine Wall roughly 100 km North of Hadrian's Wall in order to aid in the Roman push into Caledonian territory...
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    Illuminating Hadrian's Wall was a public event on Hadrian's Wall which took place on 13 March 2010 and saw the route of the wall lit with beacons. The...
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    Graupius. However, the Romans soon withdrew from northern Britain. After Hadrian's Wall was established as the northern border, tribes in the region repeatedly...
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    Heddon-on-the-Wall attracts tourists passing through on tours of Hadrian's Wall. Heddon-on-the-Wall is located on the Hadrian's Wall Path, and contains...
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    Severus travelled to Britain in 208, strengthening Hadrian's Wall and reoccupying the Antonine Wall. In 209 he invaded Caledonia (modern Scotland) with...
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    extensive defensive wall, known to posterity as Hadrian's Wall, to be built close to the line of the Stanegate frontier. Hadrian appointed Aulus Platorius...
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    Count of the Saxon Shore. His responsibilities covered the area along Hadrian's Wall, including the surrounding areas to the Humber estuary in the southeast...
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    consensus believes they are most likely referring to the Antonine Wall. However, Hadrian's Wall and Offa's Dyke have both been suggested as possible candidates...
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    Sycamore Gap tree (category Hadrian's Wall)
    The Sycamore Gap tree or Robin Hood tree was a sycamore tree next to Hadrian's Wall near Crag Lough in Northumberland, England. Standing in a dramatic dip...
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    and the River Irthing in Cumbria. It predated the Hadrian's Wall frontier by several decades; the Wall would later follow a similar route, albeit slightly...
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  • one final mission: evacuate an important Roman family from north of Hadrian's Wall, saving them from an advancing army of invading Saxons led by the ruthless...
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    county lay north of Hadrian's Wall. It was controlled by Rome only for the brief period of its extension of power north to the Antonine Wall. The Roman road...
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    future Hadrian's Wall, which was constructed by his successor Hadrian in 122–132. Scotland (Caledonia), including England north of Hadrian's Wall, remained...
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    town in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall. It has a population of 43,842 and lies 4 miles (6.5 kilometres) east...
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    as city walls or town walls, although there were also walls, such as the Great Wall of China, Walls of Benin, Hadrian's Wall, Anastasian Wall, and the...
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  • around England (planned to be completed by 2024) Glyndŵr's Way in Wales Hadrian's Wall Path in England North Downs Way in England Offa's Dyke Path in Wales...
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    abandoned by Severus' son Caracalla and Roman forces once again withdrew to Hadrian's Wall. The cause of Severus' invasion of Caledonia (modern day Scotland) was...
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    infrastructure, such as Hadrian's Wall in Britain. There was almost a renewed war with Parthia, but the threat was averted when Hadrian succeeded in negotiating...
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