NOUN
- an ancient Roman wall built by Hadrian in the 2nd century; marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain
How To Use Hadrian's Wall In A Sentence
- A programme of repair and maintenance work was undertaken on parts of Hadrian's Wall.
- You will struggle to get a plate of mince and tatties, stovies or even the relatively healthy cock-a-leekie soup south of Hadrian's Wall. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- It includes important early accounts of such major monuments as Stonehenge and Hadrian's Wall.
- I invented the story of this Roman woman who went to a fort south of Hadrian's Wall to join her husband.
- Temporarily Hadrian's Wall became redundant; gates were removed from the milecastles, and parts of the Vallum were deliberately slighted to form additional crossings.
- Pictured: ancient Roman border security in England, aka Hadrian's Wall. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc . . . And The Border
- Part of the northern frontier of the Roman Empire of Hadrian's Wall.
- A second road, turning north-west from Catterick Bridge, mounted the Pennine Chain by way of forts at Rokeby, Bowes and Brough-under-Stainmoor, descended into the Eden valley, reached Hadrian's wall near Carlisle (Luguvallium), and passed on to Birrens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
- Environmental groups are up in arms about plans to sink an oil well close to Hadrian's Wall.
- But on an evening like this at Hadrian's Wall, in the soft rain and with the cuckoo and the peewit for company, the wild and empty landscape forces a revision of my historical imagination.
