hadrian's wall

     

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Trivia about hadrian's wall

  • When completed, it stretched for 73 1/2 miles from Bowness to Wallsend
  • Remants of this historic British fortification are seen here:
  • I'm named for the Roman Emperor who visited Britain around 121 but didn't stick around to see me built
  • Emperor Antonius Pius extended the Empire's frontier into Scotland & built a new wall to replace this
  • It's going back, back...& it's over this 73-mile-long wall built in the 120s A.D.; "the Emperor" has done it again!
  • This 73-mile-long heritage site was built back in 122 A.D. to keep northern invaders out of England
  • 12-20 feet high to keep the barbarians at bay, it ran 73 miles from Wallsend in the east to Bowness in the west
  • Alan Whitworth figures when he's done in 2007, his sketch of this fortification in England will be 73 miles long
  • The Ancient Romans built this across Britain from the mouth of the Tyne River to Solway Firth

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