The Vallum is a huge earthwork associated with Hadrian's Wall. Its ruins are more visible than the lesser known Antonine Wall to the north.It also had small watch towers/fortes along it. Hadrian's Wall was the first of two "great walls" created by the Romans in Great Britain. It shares this listing with the Antonine Wall in Scotland and the German fortifications known as the Limes Germanicus. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. Hadrian's Wall is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site called Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Romans used the wall for at least two hundred years. The ditch was at about 3 metres (9.8 feet) deep and was normally about 8.2 metres (27 feet) wide. The ditch was 6 metres (20 feet) away from the wall. In front of the wall (on the northern side) was a ditch. To start with, the wall's east end was at Newcastle upon Tyne ( Latin: Pons Aelius), but later the Romans built more stone wall for 6 kilometres (3.7 miles) to the east, to Wallsend on Tyne. The wall's turf part was 6 metres (20 feet) thick and about 4.2 metres (14 feet) tall. The stone part of the wall was 3 metres (9.8 feet) thick and about 4.2 metres (14 feet) tall. To the west of this section – for 46 kilometres (29 miles) – the wall was made of turf. Most of the wall – 67 kilometres (42 miles) – was made of stone. The wall was about 118 kilometres (73 miles) long. The Roman legions (armies) of the governor of Roman Britain, Platorius Nepos, built the wall for the emperor between 122 and 126. When the Romans built the wall, it was the northern border of the Roman Empire. The wall is now in England, and runs between the Solway Firth and the River Tyne in northern England. The Roman emperor Hadrian built the wall to control barbarians: the ancient Britons to the north of the wall. Hadrian's Wall ( Latin: Vallum Aelium or Vallum Hadriani) is a stone and turf fortification built across northern Great Britain by the Roman Empire in the early second century. Map of Hadrian's Wall in northern England and the Antonine Wall in Scotland Ruins of Hadrian's Wall near Greenhead The remains of the fort at Housesteads The Staffordshire Moorlands cup, an enamelled Roman bronze vessel (diameter 89.5 mm) which lists the names of several Roman forts on the western sector of Hadrian's Wall.
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