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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 Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. [1]
English: OS Map of Hadrian's Wall, in Northern England, at a scale of 1:31,680 or two inches to one mile. Date: 31 December 1964: Source: Scan of original OS map: Author:
File:Hadrians_Wall_map.png licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0-migrated, GFDL 2009-01-01T22:03:09Z Mahahahaneapneap 800x995 (219681 Bytes) Compressed; 2005-09-20T21:00:40Z NormanEinstein 800x995 (294704 Bytes) This map shows the location of Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall in Scotland and Northern England. Created by NormanEinstein, September 20, 2005.
The route of Hadrian's Wall (in brown) in northern England. The background map shows modern counties and urban areas. The background map shows modern counties and urban areas. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 170%
English: Hadrian's Wall was planned to be ten feet wide at the base, and large elements of the base at least was constructed to this standard. During construction this was narrowed to eight feet, this shows the junction.
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Bede obviously identified Gildas's stone wall as Hadrian's Wall, but he sets its construction in the 5th century rather than the 120s, and does not mention Hadrian. And he would appear to have believed that the ditch-and-mound barrier known as the Vallum (just to the south of, and contemporary with, Hadrian's Wall) was the rampart constructed ...
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 Wallsend on the east coast of England to Bowness-on-Solway on the west coast. [ 1 ]