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This was the last day of the Edinburgh trip. I've always wanted to see Hadrian's Wall, and it was on the way back.. This is a wall built by the Romans during their occupation of England to keep out the people living in Scotland. It was started in 122 A.D., so it's very old. It used to be 15 feet high across the whole 70ish miles, but after the Romans left, everyone took the stones for building their farms and fences. Houstead's is one of the best preserved sites along the wall. It was a good sized fort and settlement. It was very cool seeing stones that were placed there 1800 years ago! This is one of the better sections of the wall, most are fairly run down... Of course, all of the parents of the little punks were just letting them climb all over everything. What else is new? ;) At least I got a funny picture out of it... A lot of people walk the length (as much as possible) of the wall, although I don't know if I could do the whole 70 miles! |
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 Nice walk from the parking lot |
 "The best Roman fort in Northern Europe" |
 The whole fort up on the hill |
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 Thistle! (We are pretty close to Scotland) |
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 These are barracks, stables, houses. |
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 After the Romans left, local people moved into the fort, |
 since it was so defensible. |
 Lots of bandits filled the vacuum when the Romans left. |
 Did somebody lose something? |
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 Granary |
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 It's the wall |
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 Imagine this twice as high |
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 The major industry in the region |
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 More buildings buried under here. |
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 Love the illustration! (So that's how they do that) |
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