Published: 23 January, 2024 | Volume 8 - Issue 1 | Pages: 001-011
Figure 7:
Figure 7: The northern Frontier of Roman Britain. Aerial view East over the Roman fort of Housesteads, on Hadrian's wall. The curtain wall lies along the north wall of the fort and stretches to the horizon. The Vallum runs almost parallel to the Wall itself and forms the southern edge of the militarised zone. To the south of the Vallum, the (later) Roman military road joining all the forts on the wall is evident in this aerial photograph. (Photograph by kind permission of Air Images Ltd). A reconstructed turret at Vindolanda Roman Fort attached to a short length of the curtain wall
illustrates around 30m of the 117 km frontier that makes up Hadrian’s Wall.
The massive earth-moving needed to create the 112 km length of the Vallum is evident in the insert below right, all the more impressive when it is realised that it was dug by hand using dolabra, wooden shovels tipped with iron, and moved in baskets and carts.
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