This week: Roman forts

It is understandable perhaps, here in Britain, that we have a somewhat partial understanding of Ancient Rome’s border defences – with most attention focused naturally on Hadrian’s Wall, the extraordinary fortified structure that is the largest Roman artefact anywhere in the world. But while Hadrian’s Wall is unique in many ways, its 73-mile length makes up just a small part of Rome’s vast frontier network – which at the empire’s height spanned some 3,100 miles in total, from the Irish Sea to the Black Sea, then south through the Middle East, and across North Africa to the Atlantic. All along…

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Time to do it right

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