Outdoor Pitstop
The story
Audio tour · Ruins
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You're standing at Hadrian's Wall. What you see here is just a small slice of a frontier that ran right across the island, coast to coast. Around a hundred and seventeen kilometres in all, from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east to just beyond Bowness-on-Solway in the west. Have a look at the stones in front of you. Nowhere does the wall still reach its original height. The monk Bede wrote around the year 730 that it stood about three and a half metres tall, and it may well have been higher when it was new.
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