Hadrian's Wall
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Hadrian's Wall was a wall built by the Romans across the centre of Britain in the 2nd century CE, to defend their northern frontier from Pictish incursions.
It stretched from Wallsend in the east to Bowness on Solway in the west, separating (approximately) England from Scotland, which was never conquered by the Romans, though a subsequent northward advance took them as far as the Antonine Wall.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, much of the stone from the wall was taken and reused building local churches and abbeys, not to mention housing and farmsteads. All that remains of the wall are small sections which constitute something of a tourist attraction.
