The Wall Audiobook Libro.fm

Hadrians Wall is the largest and one of the most enigmatic historical monuments in Britain Nothing else approaches its vast scale a land wall running seventythree miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least twentysix miles down the Cumbrian coast Many of its forts are as large as Britains 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 tenyear period by more than thirty thousand soldiers and laborers at the behest of an extraordinary emperor the Wall consisted of more than twentyfour million stones giving it a mass greater than all the Egyptian pyramids put together At least a million people visit Hadrians Wall each year and it has been designated a World Heritage Site

In this 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 and how it affected the native peoples who lived in its mighty shadow The result is a unique and fascinating insight into one of the wonders of the ancient world