HADRIAN'S WALL TRACES ROMANS IN BRITAIN

The Columbian | February 24, 2002| | Copyright

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HOUSESTEADS, England -- In A.D. 128, hundreds of soldiers from the farthest reaches of the Roman Empire were garrisoned on this remote hillside, guarding their conquests in Britain from the barbarians to the north, on the other side of their brand new wall. Standing on the same spot on a winter's day in January 2002, with the wind gusting over rugged moorland and driving sheets of icy rain into your face, history becomes tangible at Hadrian's Wall, the most important monument built by the Romans in Britain. Cutting through picturesque dales and wild mountain ...

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