The wall : Rome's greatest frontier
Moffat, Alistair, 1950-2008
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Review: Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monuments 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. 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 and how it affected the native peoples who lived in its mighty shadow.
Main title:
The wall : Rome's greatest frontier / Alistair Moffat.
Author:
Imprint:
Edinburgh, Scotland : Birlinn, 2008.
Collation:
xvi, 270 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Notes:
TV tie-in.Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-256) and index.
ISBN:
1841586757 (hbk)9781841586755 (hbk)
Dewey class:
936.2881936.204
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
135164
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - History | 936.204 MOF | Available |