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The Wall : Rome's Greatest Frontier by Moffat, Alistair is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Wall : Rome's Greatest Frontier about?
In The Wall, Alistair Moffat's fascination shines through as he captures the enormous endeavour of the builders along with the captivating human stories the stones still tell after nearly two millennia.' The Scotsman Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the Cumbrian coast. Many of its forts are as large as Britain's most formidable medieval castles, and the wide ditch dug to the south of the Wall, the vallum, is larger than any surviving prehistoric earthwork.Built in a ten-year period by more than 30,000 soldiers and labourers at the behest of an extraordinary emperor, the Wall consisted of more than 24 million stones, giving it a mass greater than all the Egyptian pyramids put together. At least a million people visit Hadrian's Wall each year and it has been designated a World Heritage Site. In this new book, based on literary and historical sources as well as the latest archaeological research, Alistair Moffat considers who built the Wall, how it was built, why it was built
Who reads The Wall : Rome's Greatest Frontier?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Moffat, Alistair
- Publisher
- Birlinn Publishers
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781780274553
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.93 / 5 (78 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14