Title

Walltown Crags, Hadrian's Wall, c2nd century, (c1960s)

Caption

Walltown Crags, Hadrian's Wall, c2nd century, (c1960s). Reconstruction drawing. A defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia, begun in 122 AD in the reign of the emperor Hadrian. It ran from the banks of the River Tyne near the North Sea to the Solway Firth on the Irish Sea, and was the northern limit of the Roman Empire. Walltown Crags is perhaps the most scenic place to view Hadrian's Wall.

Date

1960

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B34_383

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (3,1Mb) / 16,7in x 11,7in / 4997 x 3497 (300dpi)

Keywords

scenic Italy hill building buildings England landscape arts country Rome art view British geography English color colour distance defense fortification Roman war location century drawing vista Britain patrol soldiers soldier concept defensive Sixties reconstruction Elevated View 1960s 20th century historic Hadrian's Wall English Heritage 2nd century geographical feature landscape arial view Walltown Crags Hadrian Publius Aelius Hadrianus Emperor Hadrian Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus Mucklebank Crags Alan Ernest Sorrell Sorrell Alan Ernest Alan Sorrell Hadrian landscape