Hadrian's Wall: Ancient Rome's Great Northern Frontier | Odyssey
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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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?
8:20 thats no good luck charm mate that’s a dick 😂 cools story tho.
I've been there.
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.
To build the first 50 meters today would take 200+ years of permitting, reviews, meetings, environmental reviews…………………………what has happened to us?
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.
Hiking this over 5 days (c. 20 miles per day) was a great experience. And I discovered great b&bs along the way.
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.
I really enjoyed this. thanks to the whole team
I just try to improve my English ,I need ,but it's interesting too ,thanks 😂
Another giant video, Dan ! Heartly salutes from the Limeswall 🙂
I find it hard to say reconstructed at Arbeia when the full fort isn't reconstructed and we don't have a physical scale to connect to.
Another Hadrian wall video 🙄 whats that now the 37th video
Did Hadrian get the Scots to pay for it?
They keep putting out Handrians wall videos and I love it
Dan your audio is so bad around the 15:00 min mark…
They couldn’t keep the illegals out. Open borders have consequences!
What if the wall was to keep people in, and not to reinforce the fighting numbers of the Picts?
I live just North of the wall and spent many nights sleeping in the forts in Roman kit as a re enactor.
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?
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.
Amazing, so cool. So, how tall was it?
Bet, all those Calvary men, broke their own horses
Never stop learning.🤙
Why is the tour guide an American with a lip full of tobacco chaw? ( I am American )
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.
good video thanks
Didn't China do this first??
"That is the largest phallus in Roman Britain". Alright, it's all I needed to know, now I can die happy
Tanks from Italy . Amazing episode.
Why did the island that today is Britain fall back into the stone age when the Romans left? So weird.
All I know is that in 2024 should this wall now border your property you are one very wealthy pleb.
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.)