[blam]

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[afraidfortherepublic]

Archealogists found SCENERY??? and VIEWS???

I was hoping for coins, bones, or scrolls.

[MamaB]

Have you seen all of the shows on the History Channel about all of digging going on in different places? It is a very interesting show.

[sphinx]

It was presumed to have been a defensive wall to keep warring barbarians out, but historians have argued that it was built in peaceful times and that its real purpose was as a customs frontier.

Nonsense. If it was a taxing station it would never have been abandoned. People would still be paying tolls to pass.

[Sam Cree]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Hadrian%27s_wall_at_Greenhead_Lough.jpg

[PzLdr]

Once again somebody forgot that the Romans built another wall [wooden] north of Hadrian's Wall - twice. The walls probably served both purposes. The Roman Army patrolled north of Hadrian's Wall, so there had to be some defensive purpose in mind.

[SunkenCiv]

Subtitled, "Where the Boys Are". ;')

[SunkenCiv]

Wall be darned. ;') Thanks Blam.

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[metesky]

Raiders from both the English and Scottish sides of the wall commenced fighting back and forth over the border almost as soon as the Romans left, sometimes organized by the countries themselves, but many as simple reivers and thieves organized by clans and families.

This reiving became endemic and went on for centuries until finally stopped when the two kingdoms were united under James the VI and I late in the 16th and early 17th centuries.

A very good book on the great Border reiving clans is George MacDonald Fraiser's "The Steel Bonnets". The area was home to some of the hardest men in Anglo/Scots history and the Clans gave us at least two presidents (Johnson and Nixon).