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Alternative views: Exploring ‘icons’ of the Hadrian’s Wall landscape
In the aftermath of the felling of the famous tree at Sycamore Gap, David Breeze examines how artistic interest in different sections of Hadrian’s Wall has changed over the centuries.
The tree at Sycamore Gap has been cut down in an appalling act of vandalism, but it is not the only ‘iconic’ view of Hadrian’s Wall to have suffered damage during the Roman frontier’s more recent history – nor is it unique in having captured the imagination to such a degree.
In the second half of the 19th century, the favoured sector of Hadrian’s Wall was at Walltown, seven miles further west. When John Hodgson, doyen of Hadrian’s Wall studies and author of A History of Northumberland, published his fourth volume in 1840, he included a long footnote on the Wall, which was illustrated by drawings (specially prepared by William Collard) showing the state of the surviving Wall
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