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.
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  • 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.
  • The overcast and drizzly weather stretched all the way from Hadrian's Wall to the Shetland Islands, making Scots reach for their umbrellas and cardies rather than parasols and bikinis.
  • I flourish the knife at them as they streak away southwards over Hadrian's Wall, over the chapel of St. Michael and All Angels and out of sight. Excerpt: Raven Summer by David Almond
  • But we neutrals will be ushered away (figuratively, I hope), leaving the stage set for a thumping reaffirmation of the view that Hadrian's Wall means far more than a few stones on a hill.
  • Environmental groups are up in arms about plans to sink an oil well close to Hadrian's Wall.
  • Specifically, there is evidence that the garrisons of the forts stationed north of Hadrian's Wall were withdrawn, and that thereafter a permanent Roman military presence north of the Wall did not figure in Roman strategic planning.

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