🛡️ Hadrian's Wall (Wall Miles 21–22)
UNESCO World Heritage Site section in central Northumberland, England
📌 Fast Facts
- Location: Between Fence Burn and track to Portgate Cottage, Northumberland, England (55.010706, −2.020875)
- Period: Built early 2nd century CE under Emperor Hadrian
- UNESCO Status: World Heritage Site (inscribed 1987) as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Key Features: Wall foundations, ditch, vallum (parallel earthwork), and military way
This stretch of Hadrian's Wall preserves a section of the northern frontier of Roman Britain, running across Northumberland countryside between two landscape markers. The site contains the wall's foundation traces, a recognizable ditch, and the vallum—a broad parallel earthwork—demonstrating the systematic Roman approach to border control. The section illustrates both the engineering sophistication and the landscape adaptation that characterised the frontier system across nearly 2,000 years ...