The photo above shows a wooden reconstruction of the wall and gatehouse at Vindolanda. The fort and the surrounding settlement lies to the south of Hadrian's Wall. Over the summer months there are ...
Hadrian's Wall was a Roman frontier built in the years AD 122-30 by order of the Emperor Hadrian. It was 73 miles long and ran from Wallsend-on-Tyne in the east to Bowness on the Solway Firth in ...
This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...
It's rare to find gladiator memorabilia from Roman Britain, but archaeologists by Hadrian's Wall have just found a 2,000-year ...
A precious gem found at Carlisle's Roman Bathhouse has illuminated the intricacies of religion on Rome's northernmost frontier.
Beyond its practical purposes, the psychological impact of the wall must have been tremendous. For nearly three centuries, ...
There are numerous museums on route, providing a fascinating insight into life in ancient ... the whole Hadrian's Wall trail from West to East. It is a good walk and scramble at times. “ ...