Hadrian's Wall: Ancient Rome's Great Northern Frontier | Odyssey

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Hadrian's Wall: Ancient Rome's Great Northern Frontier | Odyssey


Dan Snow explores the physical remains of Hadrian’s vast project of 122AD – over 80 Roman miles of wall, turrets and forts, stretching from coast to coast across northern England. Mile after mile of stone marching over the horizon.

But why did the Romans go to all this effort? We dig into the key questions: was the wall a barrier or a porous…

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  1. This was interesting. I don't know why the carved pen** on the wall can't just be grafitti. Why does it have to be a symbol of magic? Why couldn't a few soldiers who regularly spent time at that spot have gotten bored and thought carving that was amusing? Ppl do it all the time. Why shouldn't they?

  2. Man, this one was sort of kinky. First, they go see the dick behind the wall, then at 15:12 there is the tombstone of "Vagina"? And the here and then "projection of hard power" coming out of Hadrian's wall, "the two pillars of Romand power", "dicks everywhere", the largest one in the whole empire, pine cones in the butt… It probably was very lonely up there North.

  3. Probably every street sign in the Roman empire had a male organ depiction and made into things like bronze door knockers and oil lamps and the like. I guess times change, probably due to Christianity which viewed such things as rude pagan insults to whatever.

  4. Well, turns out that the Great Wall of China wasn’t built by China so why would we believe this was built by Romans? Because they said so? Archaeologists and historians have been deceiving us for years, whether intentionally or because they assumed everyone before them was correct.

  5. Interesting co-incidence, of timing, between the fall of the Roman Empire, in this part of the Empire, and the conversion from pagan religion, to Christianity.
    Is it purely co-incidence?

  6. 2:21 Hadrian's wall wasn't an enigma. The Romans already did it in Germania with the "limes" – a literal wall with gates, guardhouses, and garrisons that delineated the maximum limit of the empire – starting in AD 83, something like a century before Hadrian came to power. The remains of the limes still exist in the form of earthworks. The only thing that makes Hadrian's wall different is that it was entirely constructed of stone.

  7. Perceived "Savagery" from "Civilisation". I think the wall symbolised that Rome lacked the ability to truly conquer the 'killing-grounds' of the far North. The domain of the Highlander.

  8. I’m sure that the Barbarians were allowed through with their livestock – as long as they paid a toll fee. The Romans were all about money and did trade with anyone. The narrow gate would have allowed for better counting of the people and livestock in order to assess the toll. (And search for arms, no doubt.)