Hadrian's wall.
This section of Hadrian’s wall is near Housteads, the weather was a bit bleak. Can you imagine what it would have been like for the Roman soldiers who had to guard the wall. I understand the wall would have been about ten foot high at this point.
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adgray, 5 months ago
Can you imagine the slaves that the Romans “commissioned” to build the bloody thing?
I love the movie “King Arthur” and how it uses the wall as it’s focal point.
Thank you for showing me the reality :o)
TallGuy in reply to adgray’s comment, 5 months ago
People often think it’s on the border of England and Scotland, but it is totally in England. It is the most famous of three defensive walls built across Britain.
I’m no expert on these things, but I did check it out on Wikipedia
tomg, 5 months ago
Great scene of a very famous wall. The wall was actually built to keep the northern tribes out (my lot). Actually the Romans did manage to get a bit furthe up and they built another wall (the Antonine wall). This wall was the northernmost frontier of the Roman empire. The barrier consisted of a line of auxiliary forts and fortlets connected by a continuous rampart wall made of turf and soil and a ditch. These entrenchments ran from Borrowstounness (Bo’ness) near Carriden on the Firth of Forth, to Old Kilpatrick in the outskirts of Glasgow near Dumbarton on the Firth of Clyde. The wall ran for 39 miles – exactly half the distance of Hadrian’s defensive works further south – and passed along the central valley of Scotland formed by the River Kelvin in the west and the Bonny Water to the east. For the most part the defences were positioned to the south of these two streams, which themselves formed a natural line of defence against attack from the north.
TallGuy in reply to tomg’s comment, 5 months ago
Thanks Tom,
I have to admit to not knowing much at all about the Antonine wall, so thank you for taking the time to give me that extra info :-)
Camerashy, 5 months ago
Even in bleak weather it is still possible to take great shots….....well done
Carlos Teófilo, 5 months ago
Just beautiful Alan.
justlinda, 5 months ago
Stunning view and image!.
Beatrix M Varga, 5 months ago
What a perfect image! Just beautiful! :)
TallGuy in reply to adgray’s comment, about 1 month ago
I know you added this comment ages ago, but I was watching a programme about Hadrian’s Wall the other night. It was actually built by the Roman soldiers themselves, not slaves.
It was thought by Hadrian that building the wall would keep the soldiers busy.. and stop them from being bored and homesick..
What a cold miserable place this would be for the soldiers after the warmth of Italy :-)
adgray, about 1 month ago
Who saids the soldiers weren’t enslaved in the first place? Wasn’t that how the Roman’s did it – fight with us or work for us or die?
I haven’t read up on Roman history – got force fed a bit as a kid and choked on it! – but from the bits I have gleaned they conquered a land by enslaving the people into the empire as soldiers or workers for an indented period of time. the Samatian knights – where the sons were indentured to the romans for 15 years, the people of the empire were either soldiers or “Free workers” [slaves] for their Roman masters. Italy ain’t that big so the soldiers would have been locals – or commissioned from other conquered states with Italian born officers leading them and Italian born Nobles owning the properties they were “Protecting” from the pics or “Woads” as they called them. To find out that these commissioned soldiers built the wall that they then had to man seems only marginally better.
Must admit the leaders of the times then certainly had the bigger picture in view always!
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