Hadrian’s Wall
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The Antennine War
When Hadrian died in 138, he was followed by Antinoas Pius. He insisted on shifting the frontier up to the Antennine War. It's only a few miles but this was the next narrow part of Britain. On a map, it probably looked perfectly sensible. There wasn't the stone there. They went back to the old way of building in Turf and Timber. In 180 AD, tribes managed to breach the war and kill a Roman general and his troops.
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