Hadrian's Wall: The Final Frontier Of The Ancient Roman Empire | Full History Hit Series 

I just walked Hadrian’s wall in April 2023 - took my time spent a few days exploring several spots - most excellent walk. Loved the wall - can’t even find enough words to express how magic it was ♥️🇨🇦

I can't stop watching the narrator's hands. They do the same movement over and over and over with every - single- word - he - says. It's mesmerizing. I have no idea about anything regarding Hadrian's wall, but I watched his arms flail over a hundred thousand times now.

A while ago when i was a school boy the teacher asked us ,,"where was Hadrians wall ?",to which the smart lad next to me replied "behind Hadrians house".

I JUST finished writting and submitting a paper on this subject for my college class on Roman history

Standardizing the fort also helps with construction and maintenance. They would know how much material was needed to build it and how best to maintain it based upon their experience at other locations.

I'm a Northumbrian and that is the best weather I've ever seen at Housesteads.

Sound is NOT muffled. Excellent production and super informative. Thank you!!

I love the idea that this huge empire that fought huge hoards of savages, barbarians,warrior armies across the planet and planted it's flag anywhere it chose then met the Scot's and thought 'fk that ! Let's just wall it off and call that the end bit "

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

That was absolutely fascinating and thank you so much, it was utterly brilliant. I grew up near Newcastle and I’ve always felt lucky and privileged to be brought up near such a of historical interest re the Roman Empire. Thank you again.

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Went to see the remains of the garrison on hadrians wall in the lake district at 0:15, absolutely loved it and the museum, I like how much the romans left behind them when the empire fell. Lots of documents of normal roman life in britain. Also bought a cheeky roman legion shield mug from the national trust

Can you imagine what some poor soldier from the middle east was thinking when he found himself in northern England?

Facinating! I very read a lot about this time.in history, but this is the best program I'that really brings it to life! Bravo!

I really enjoyed this. It made it even better to put all 3 episodes together. Tristan's comment about the barrack room being "cozy" may have been a bit off the mark. By putting 2 sets of 4 high bunks in there, there would've been a fair amount of room. Certainly enough for a table where 4 of the soldiers could've played cards or dice. You have to remember that during the day these guys would've been out building, patrolling, and other jobs they might've been assigned. Aboard a modern naval vessel there might be even more in the same amount of area.

Tristan seems like a great guy and a great host.

Weather was mentioned a few times but it is worth remembering it was upto 5deg warmer back then.

Love to visit the wall

A quite comprehensive 3-part documentary of Roman Britain! Excellent content guys, thanks for sharing.

Sound is oddly muffled. Hadrian's Wall, like everything Hadrian did--Pantheon, elevation of Hellenic culture--is fantastic. If you visit, be sure to visit the nearby beautiful Neolithic Castlerigg stone circle.

Thank-you for your guided tours, Dr. MacIntosh! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻I find it fascinating that both the Denarii/Sesterces are in the same bank vault strong room as their standards and eagles. /// Roman Baths, the great equalizer. All walks of life were allowed to bathe there. 🛀🏻🧼🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧

An extraordinary and very well-done video👏

1:26:52 If you can put in fresh water.. you dont need to drain or plug the pools. You add new water which over fills the pools, the old water is Essentially rinsed out by new input. The water as it overflows the pool would rinse the floors. This is what i think happened in the bath house. Maybe on a nightly or bi-nightly basis, or something, somewhat frequently. You have to change the pool waters and rinse the floors, what better more efficient way then just overfilling maybe overnight when no one is in the bath house and you can use a stiff brush on the floors with the water for a better clean. . You got soldiers of all ranks, an high profile people going in the bath house so you got to have some way to attemp to keep it clean somehow.

Thank you for sharing this informative video

The Romans tried to secure the land beyond Hadrian's Wall by marching north some 100 miles and establishing the Antonine Wall. This meant a pacified, safe southern Scotland and the Romans almost abandoned Hadrian's Wall, but not in its entirety. It wasn't to last. Rome could hang on to the Antonine Wall and after Emperor Pius' death, abandoned the wall and returned to Hadrian's wall. Hadrian's Wall then confronted its greatest test just twenty years after its recommissioning. Around 181 A.D. Caledonian and Pict warriors launched a massive raid upon Hadrian's Wall. Historical sources are scant but evidently the native warriors were able to inflict much damage and even breach the wall. The Roman governor may have been killed. It was almost the perfect time for the Scots and Picts. The Roman Empire was in deep trouble on its Danube frontiers. The Parthian War lasted five years and returning legionaries brought back a devastating plague which ravaged the empire. It scoured the ranks of the Roman Army too. Throughout the 170s emperor Marcus Aurelius was hard pressed to repel numerous barbarian coalitions and tribes raiding across the Danube River in great strength. Roman manpower was scarce in the face of the early plague and heavy war casualties against the Parthians and the Germanic Marcomanni, Quadi, Iazyges, Sarmatians, Chatti, Chauci, Bructali, and other tribes. We can possibly assume that at this time, Britain's Roman garrisons may have been understrength. There had been peace for twenty years since the abandonment of the Antonine Wall. The sudden attacks on Hadrian's Wall must have taken the Romans completely by surprise. But in the end the Caledonian and Pictish invaders were either repelled or they left on their own accord. It was the start of rough times in Britain until a new emperor, Septimus Severus, in 191 AD entered Britain with a force of six legions intending to square the Caledonian and Pict problem in Scotland once and for all. History records that after particularly savage, brutal, and genocidal warfare which cost the Romans at least the equivalent of two legions; some say four, Severus was able achieve peace in Britain for the next eighty years.

Did you guys visit the spot where John Snow was stationed? Is it still there?

Love the wall, the Scots must have been scary. Reckon microlhone may be under jacket? Definitely hard to hear at times. Thank you for making.❤

Wow, nice video. And just in time as I recently have started playing "Hadrian's Wall" the board game. It is nice to know some history behind it. :)

The Romans were amazing soldiers and engineers. Greatest empire ever.

yes the officers had better accommodations with a office as they usually stayed longer periods of time while the soldiers had more movement, but on their terms sometimes a inn for a beer :)

could the chalet style barracks be a response to deforestation in the area? You'd need shorter lengths of timber to go across the width a chalet style building (about 5m). Whereas to go across the width of an old style barrack block would take much longer trunks (about 12m).

1:05:50 i like this female, she is very knowledgeable, a Good educator. Thank you ma'am for the input you shared in this video.

There was one movie where a doctor in the Early 1900s was riding a car to deliver a baby and he was used to riding to house calls on a horse. He made the point that he thought it was warmer on top of his horse than in the car. I'm sure having three horses is a good amount of body heat. It might not be a lot, but it might take the edge off a slight chill in the fall and spring.

Would love to walk it one day

Well done. Thorough and nicely paced.

I really appreciate how psyched the lady in the pink tank top is about all this. The manifestation of, "if your job is doing what you love, you'll never work a day in your life."

Great doc.

I walked this track about 8 years ago or so and only now watching the history of it 😂

Wow, what a bunch of moaners. Sound is muffled, gesticulating too much, thumbnails are tacky. I nearly didn't watch it because of the negativity, glad I did though, enjoyable and educational.

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about the Hadrian stones Wall in North Britain 🇬🇧 built 2000 years ago .video introduced by an amazing ( History Hit) channel.

Excellent doco.

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Excellent documentry

Id like to hear more about the wall after the romans

34:08 Thats Impressive and its a suprise to me how near Medieval it looks.

It's was cool seeing it in Assassin's Creed valhalla by the way 👍

My second favorite wall.

Turf, a pallisade and a couple of deep ditches sounds fine to me ...

Would recommend also using the metric system or having some kind of text showing the different measures so us viewers who arent as versed with feets.

Excited for this one!

Hughes sounds like he is wearing a lapel mic. His interviews sound better.. Is there a audio software used to filter out ambient noise?

When?

Antonine wall was the original but seems to be more forgotten than hadrians wall

Is the microphone in your coat pocket with all that other stuff you're always carrying around?

Hadrian was in Judea, had the legions put down the Second Jewish rebellion in 132 AD and had built Temple to Jupiter on the flattened Temple Mount.

The audio is kind of muffled and hard to hear.

Need 4k

Does this sound really muffled to anyone else?

I think, wooden tours were made to clear the near land of the forest to see the attack

Built to contain.... this wall wasn't built due to the defeat it was built out of fear .... interesting documentary

59:11 buried the chest, then possibly died or he wouldve came back and gotten it. I'll guess it was a wealthy soldier of some rank who had 2 sets of Armor. He buried one and his other left behind belongings, while wearing the other off somewhere to a battle, never to return.

The Antonine Wall says hello

BANNA ! The Dacians Fort on the wall of Hadrian. Banna-Birdoswald, Britannia-UK. BANNA - In Northumbria - the largest and oldest fort of the sixteen inscribed along the wall, the best preserved, with most vestiges, the only inhabited, and after the breakdown of the Roman empire, long after, by the descendants of those soldiers coming from Dacia . Banna! ... Birdoswald, as the Englishmen baptized it . This fortress was built and inhabited by 1000 soldiers from COHORS I AELIA DACORUM , recruited by the Roman Emperor Hadrian from Dacia ( actual Romania) at 120-125 AC , to fight against Scottish, Iuti and Picti from the north. After the Dacian wars (101-102 and 105-106), the Roman Empire used Dacian cohorts (military units of 500-1000 soldiers) throughout the Empire, archaeological discoveries pointing to their presence both in the United Kingdom today and in Turkey . '' '' They were remarkable warriors. They fought without fear of death and died laughing because they believed that their souls were immortal. The title "Aelia" itself was a great honor, for it derives from the entire name of Emperor Hadrian, a name that could be won only because of a military or cultural service out of the ordinary. At first they were sent to the Wall, in an outpost called Bewcastle, to fight first with the barbarian tribes. Send somehow to the sacrifice. At a fort located in an open, wilderness, without a wall, without forests, without anything around. That, precisely because they knew their courage and devotion in the fight. They were supposed to die, but they did not die. Then they came here to Banna, and they lived here until the end. They got lands, rights, ranks. They have remained forever there in their city. Yes. They were undoubtedly among the best fighters brought here to fight at Hadrian's wall. These are facts, certainties, "says the archaeologist Robin Birley ''' , British archaeologist Director of Excavations at the Roman site of Vindolanda and head of the Vindolanda research committee . The Dacians, the Romanians ancestors..

Tristan great documentary,but i think it has been proven that the wall was 20 feet high and 10 feet wide.which would have allowed soldiers to patrol it.

Great stuff guys i went there once years ago take care Sam Moore 😊

Audio is scuffed

Tristan Hughes’s audio is terrible. It’s so muffled it’s often hard to understand him.

What about Antonian wall?

18:00 - could it be for fire prevention like in other Roman towns, or is the timing wrong?

Why is it that the tragic death of world leaders/ their lovers, always seems to involve Egypt in some way...

I was there as a child about 7 or 8

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It was warmer during the Roman occupation than it is today so may not have been too bad during the summer time

Lol visits Corbridge, does not mention the massive Roman bridge that was there which the town is still named after 😵‍💫

i am just wondering how one knows, how high the wall would be, but not know how it looks at the top?

those kind of places are magicala bcuz when you walk there youre realizing totally different ppl walked there like with a totally differnet mindset, culture and it was so far in the past

Had the Romans figured out automatic weapons, humans would now be living on Mars.

What if the wall was to stop everybody escaping into Scotland from the Romans?

This becomes much more intelligible if you use an equalizer plugin, and boost 2000 Hz and 4000 Hz bands to max...

RIP to his mic that sounds terrible

It's a tax line. The Romans liked lamb meat, and Northumberland had good grass and hence good lamb. My first wife works at vinalanda for nothing, of course, and they find more bones related to sheep than cattle.

Franis McIntosh? I wonder if we are related 😊😊

why is the audio so indistinct..sounds like it was recorded badly..yet the music is clear...muddy sounding..poor treble response

Sound levels are terrible on this can barely hear what the presenter is trying to say.

You wonder why no one thought to draw pictures of the wall or write down detailed descriptions of the wall, for example, its composition, dimensions, construction, etc. Historians think there is a reason. Back then, to have been seen drawing pictures of the wall or writing down information about the wall would have caused great alarm among the Roman authorities. The person seen doing that would have been assumed to have been a spy or committing some espionage. It would have taken written permission from the Roman governor, even the emperor himself to be able to draw pictures or document the wall itself in detail. No one back then thought it was necessary nor desirable to do that. The information might end up in the hands of Roman enemies or hostile tribes who could use it for their own nefarious purposes. Censorship must have existed because we don't find such information in letters written by Roman legionaries and officers to their families and loved ones.

Thoughts and prayers to our brave soldiers at the border having to deal with undomesticated scots at a daily basis. 🙏📿

Whats up with the sound???

Must have been absolutely awesome in it’s heyday. BTW, Hadrian actually had other walls, apparently his Semi in Londinium had 4 walls too! Hadrian had the right idea, we need another big wall built to keep the SNP isolated and one across the centre of the English Channel to keep all those French inflatables out! Did all those featured on this piece have a couple of doses of the “Hand and Arm Waving Drug” before filming?

Is the sound muffled for anyone else?

Being stationed on Hadrian's Wall must have been the crappiest assignment for any legionary or officer. Or was it? A legionary could be posted at a stone fortress constructed out in the middle of the North African desert. Or the legionary could be posted on some mile fort or tower out on the Rhine or Danube frontiers, staring at the dark forests day after day. On Hadrian's Wall, outside the major forts, known as fortresses or fort, civilian settlements sprang up, known as, vicus when these grew into the organization of a town. Otherwise, sutlers and their wagons containing consumer goods, dried goods, and foods must have stationed themselves outside. Legionaries off-duty could leave the fort and avail themselves of these services, entertainments, better food, drinking establishments, buying consumer goods, and in some cases, availability of women.

Cool.

Terrible sound/ audio..

3 horses or a car in the garage. Whats the difference anyway? Can you even imagine having a horse for every pk your car has?

title is misleading. The roman actually advanced farther into Scotland and had another frontier line. Don't think they built a wall there though, just forts.

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The audio seemed a bit muddy to me but it might just be my old ears. Nice video regardless.

Can y'all believe Tristan is only 27? Poor guy

The sound is somewhat muffled at the beginning, but I do think a few people here might need their ears testing or hearing aids upgrading, because it is easy to hear.