Milecastle Hadrian's Wall With Music On Visit To The Border Between England And Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K short travel video clip, with Scottish bagpipes music, of a Milecastle on Hadrian's Wall on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit from Glasgow to the Border between England and Scotland, Britain, United Kingdom. Hadrian's Wall, Latin: Vallum Aelium, also known as the Roman Wall, Picts Wall, or Vallum Hadriani in Latin, is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the emperor Hadrian. Hadrian’s Wall is located near the border between modern day Scotland and England. It runs in an east to west direction, from Wallsend and Newcastle on the River Tyne in the east, traveling about 73 miles west to Bowness on Solway on Solway Firth. It ran 73 miles from the banks of the River Tyne near the North Sea to the Solway Firth in Scotland on the Irish Sea, and allowed the Roman Empire to project power some distance to the north, into the lands of the northern Ancient Britons, including the Picts. A milecastle was a small fort, or fortlet, a rectangular fortification built during the period of the Roman Empire. They were placed at intervals of approximately one Roman mile along several major frontiers, for example Hadrian's Wall in Great Britain, Britannia in the Roman period, hence the name. Along Hadrian's Wall, milecastles were initially constructed of stone in the eastern two thirds, and stacked turf with a wooden palisade in the western third, though the turf milecastles were later rebuilt in stone. On Hadrian's Wall, a milecastle, there are a few exceptions, guarded a gateway through the Wall with a corresponding causeway across the Wall ditch to the north, and had a garrison of perhaps 20 to 30 auxiliary soldiers. The milecastle's garrison controlled the passage of people, goods and livestock across the frontier, and it is likely that the milecastle acted as a customs post to levy taxation on that traffic. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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