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Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins

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Hadrian visits Britain and the Wall is begun, according to the Historia Augusta 'to separate the Romans from the barbarians'. The archaeology shows something more administrative than that phrase suggests: gateways at every Roman mile, indicating regulated passage and probably customs collection, not sealed exclusion. It marks the moment imperial policy turns from expansion to consolidation.

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  1. Story
  2. Hadrian visits Britain and the Wall is begun, according to the Historia Augusta 'to separate the Romans from the barbarians'. The archaeology shows something more administrative than that phrase suggests: gateways at every Roman mile, indicating regulated passage and probably customs collection, not sealed exclusion. It marks the moment imperial policy turns from expansion to consolidation.
  3. Knowledge
  4. The Roman Legion
  5. Hadrian's Wall
  6. Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Traianus)
  7. Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins
  8. Connections
  9. Hadrian's Wall
  10. The Roman Legion
  11. Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Traianus)
  12. The empire reaches its greatest territorial extent
  13. The Roman Legion
  14. Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins
  15. The empire reaches its greatest territorial extent
  16. Rome
  17. Roman Citizenship (civitas Romana)
  18. The Roman Road Network
  19. Hadrian's Wall
  20. Augustus (Gaius Octavius / Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus)
  21. Gaius Julius Caesar
  22. Caracalla (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
  23. The Punic Wars
  24. Caesar crosses the Rubicon
  25. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
  26. Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins
  27. The empire reaches its greatest territorial extent
  28. The Antonine Constitution (Constitutio Antoniniana)
  29. Alaric's Goths sack Rome
  30. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
  31. Roman Citizenship (civitas Romana)
  32. Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins
  33. The empire reaches its greatest territorial extent
  34. Evidence
  35. Hadrian's Wall, inscribed in 1987 under reference 430, is a component of the transnational 'Frontiers of the Roman Empire' property together with the German Limes and the Antonine Wall. It runs c. 117 km with milecastles at approximately every Roman mile, indicating a regulated and permeable frontier rather than a sealed barrier.
  36. The statutory heritage record documents the surviving fabric of the Wall - curtain, vallum, ditch, milecastles, turrets and forts - segment by segment, providing the archaeological basis for the Wall's course and construction phases rather than relying on literary description.
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