Birdoswald Roman Fort 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 Birdoswald Roman Fort 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 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. Birdoswald was a major Roman military fort built to protect Hadrian's Wall and a crossing of the River Irthing. Birdoswald has also been traditionally associated with Camlan, the legendary site of King Arthur's last battle. There is also a Neolithic burial on the site, and the remains of an Anglo-Saxon hall can be seen. Birdoswald is laid out on the traditional Roman plan, as a rectangle with rounded corners. The fort at Birdoswald was built shortly after Hadrian's Wall was begun in AD 122. It was garrisoned by an auxiliary infantry cohort consisting of 800 men, and remained in use throughout the period of Roman occupation in Britain. As with other large forts, a civilian settlement grew up outside the fort walls. This settlement, or vicus, consisted of stone houses laid out on a system of streets. 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. 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. 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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