🛡️ Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Hadrian's Wall vallum between West End, Burgh By Sands and the track to Dykesfield in wall miles 72 and 73
📋 Fast Facts
- Protected earthwork section of Hadrian's Wall, located west of Carlisle in Cumbria, England
- Covers wall miles 72–73, between West End at Burgh By Sands and the track to Dykesfield
- Part of the transnational UNESCO World Heritage property "Frontiers of the Roman Empire" (inscribed 1987)
- Vallum served as an internal administrative boundary, not a defensive barrier, controlling movement and access
This section of Hadrian's Wall's vallum is a protected stretch of the wider Roman frontier system created in northern Britain. The vallum—a broad ditch flanked by paired earthen mounds—runs between West End at Burgh By Sands and the track to Dykesfield across wall miles 72 and 73. Situated in a low-lying landscape west of Carlisle, the earthwork remains legible across open fields despite centuries of farming and land use ...