There is a scale model of the wall as it originally looked and a reconstruction, in the best Disney World style, of a temple where the soldiers of the wall worshiped the god Mithras. The museum (open from 10 to 5 on weekdays no admission fee) displays many of the carved inscriptions, altars, tombstones, coins, tools and other artifacts that have been found along the wall. There one can pick up a rental car and drive to the Museum of Antiquities, within the gates of Newcastle University. There is no hiking trail in the world that offers a finer combination of scenery and history than this footpath.Ī trip to the wall country can begin by taking a train from London to Newcastle, on the northeast coast of England, about 50 miles from the border of Scotland. Along the most spectacular stretch, where it follows the Whin Sill crags, the visitor can walk along it or even on top of it. He ordered his legionaries to build a wall across the island of Britain, 73 1/2 miles over hills and plains, from the North Sea to the Irish Sea.Ī good part of Hadrian's Wall is still there, some of it above ground, some of it buried. It was time, he thought, to settle once and for all the boundary between the civilized world and the barbarian world. 122 the Emperor Hadrian arrived at what is now the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to look at the farthest frontier of the Roman Empire. is a senior editor of the American Heritage Publishing Company.
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