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The Staffordshire Moorlands Pan, which may provide the ancient name of Hadrian's Wall (it reads in part VALI AELI, ie. the Wall of Hadrian, using his family name of Aelius) Hadrian's Wall was known in the Roman period as the vallum (wall), and the discovery of the Staffordshire Moorlands Pan in Staffordshire in 2003 has thrown further light on ...
In AD 180 the Caledonians took part in an invasion of Britannia, breached Hadrian's Wall and were not brought under control for several years, eventually signing peace treaties with the governor Ulpius Marcellus. This suggests that they were capable of making formal agreements in unison despite supposedly having many different chieftains.
The Vallum at Downhill Typical cross-section of Hadrian's Wall and Vallum The Vallum at Cawfields The road and Vallum at Shield on the Wall. The Vallum is a huge earthwork 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 a few years after the ...
Hadrian’s Wall in modern-day England marked one of the northern borders of the Roman Empire. But excavations along the wall are bringing to light a hidden history of the army and the Roman ...
The Sycamore Gap tree in northern England was cut down in a suspected act of vandalism in September. Now it’s been confirmed that part of historic Hadrian’s Wall where the felling took place ...
The tree was one of the main landmarks along Hadrian’s Wall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site built nearly 2,000 years ago, when Britain was part of the Roman Empire, to guard its northwestern frontier.
Hadrian's Wall, built in England beginning in 122 AD at the edge of Roman conquest to keep out the Scots; Antonine Wall, a short-lived, advanced frontier wall built in Scotland north of Hadrian's Wall beginning in 142 AD; Serdica first defensive walls build between 176 and 180 under Marcus Aurelius as evidenced by inscriptions above the gates.
On the night between Sept. 27 and 28, the tree was cut down, causing some damage to the wall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site built ne 2 men arrested in an investigation into a famous tree that was ...