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The Wall: Rome´s Greatest Frontier
Alistair Moffat
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Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the Cumbrian coast. Many of its forts are as large as Britain's most formidable medieval castles, and the wide ditch dug to the south of the Wall, the vallum, is larger than any surviving prehistoric earthwork. Built in a ten-year period by more than 30,000 soldiers and labourers at the behest of an extraordinary emperor, the Wall ... Read more
Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the Cumbrian coast. Many of its forts are as large as Britain's most formidable medieval castles, and the wide ditch dug to the south of the Wall, the vallum, is larger than any surviving prehistoric earthwork. Built in a ten-year period by more than 30,000 soldiers and labourers at the behest of an extraordinary emperor, the Wall ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Birlinn General
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
The Moffat Histories
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780274553
SKU
V9781780274553
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-9
About Alistair Moffat
Alistair Moffat was born and bred in the Scottish Borders. A former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Director of Programmes at Scottish Television, he now runs the burgeoning Borders Book Festival as well as a production company based near Selkirk.
Reviews for The Wall: Rome´s Greatest Frontier
'This is a definitive piece of research, colourfully and humorously written, beautifully illustrated with fine photography and enhanced by a necessary map, dates of the Common Ridings, names of Border families and a selection of evocative Border Ballads'
Scots Magazine
'A most compelling, thought-provoking and entertaining history'
Rosemary Goring
Herald
Scots Magazine
'A most compelling, thought-provoking and entertaining history'
Rosemary Goring
Herald