Roman Britain / by R.G. Collingwood.

  • R. G. Collingwood
Date:
1924
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Credit: Roman Britain / by R.G. Collingwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    two miles apart) and more regularly spaced ; and there is nothing to correspond with the Vallum. The Wall, instead of being built of stone and concrete, is made of turves, laid like bricks in regular courses; and some of the forts have turf, instead of stone, ramparts. We cannot say how far Hadrian’s Wall was stripped of men to HADRIAN’S WALL. View of a Turret (Mucklebank) garrison the new turf wall. Several cohorts certainly were moved from the southern wall to the northern; others were placed at forts between the two. Probably both walls were kept going, not so much as a double barrier against incursions from the Highlands, but rather in order to cut off and isolate the various not wholly pacified hill-districts from each other. The danger against which the Roman governor was trying to guard was a very real one; 2535 *1 c
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