Romans ejected locals to build Hadrian’s Wall in UK
4 March 2013 7:36 AM IST
Archaeologists have discovered that the Romans ejected locals by force in order to build the 117-km long Hadrian's Wall, stretching the breadth of northern England.
The wall stretches from the Solway Firth in the west to Wallsend on the river Tyne in the east. Construction on the wall begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian.
It was Roman Britain's most ambitious building project, designed primarily to mark the northern limit of the Empire, The Independent reported. Since the 1970s, when serious excavation began, experts believed the local population living in the shadow of the wall had actually flourished under the Roman invaders.However, the new evidence suggests the Romans actually cleared a 16-km stretch in front of the wall by force. Using carbon-dating techniques archaeologists pinpointed the chronology of the local settlements far more accurately than ever.
The wall stretches from the Solway Firth in the west to Wallsend on the river Tyne in the east. Construction on the wall begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian.
It was Roman Britain's most ambitious building project, designed primarily to mark the northern limit of the Empire, The Independent reported. Since the 1970s, when serious excavation began, experts believed the local population living in the shadow of the wall had actually flourished under the Roman invaders.However, the new evidence suggests the Romans actually cleared a 16-km stretch in front of the wall by force. Using carbon-dating techniques archaeologists pinpointed the chronology of the local settlements far more accurately than ever.
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