Hadrian's Wall

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1. Story
2. A linear frontier work of roughly 117 km (80 Roman miles) across northern Britain, with milecastles, turrets and forts, begun under Hadrian from 122 CE. It is best read not as a defensive barrier against invasion but as a controlled permeable frontier: a customs, surveillance and movement-control line. It is a component of the transnational UNESCO World Heritage property 'Frontiers of the Roman Empire' (Hadrian's Wall inscribed 1987, ref. 430).
3. Knowledge
4. The Roman Legion
5. Hadrian's Wall
6. The empire reaches its greatest territorial extent
7. Connections
8. The empire reaches its greatest territorial extent
9. The Roman Legion
10. Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins
11. The empire reaches its greatest territorial extent
12. Hadrian's Wall
13. Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Traianus)
14. The Roman Road Network
15. The Roman Legion
16. Hadrian's Wall
17. Rome
18. Roman Citizenship (civitas Romana)
19. The Roman Road Network
20. Hadrian's Wall
21. Augustus (Gaius Octavius / Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus)
22. Gaius Julius Caesar
23. Caracalla (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
24. The Punic Wars
25. Caesar crosses the Rubicon
26. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
27. Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins
28. The empire reaches its greatest territorial extent
29. The Antonine Constitution (Constitutio Antoniniana)
30. Alaric's Goths sack Rome
31. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
32. Evidence
33. 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.
34. 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.