2019 Rhind Lecture 3: "The purpose and operation of Hadrian’s Wall under Hadrian"

“The purpose and operation of Hadrian’s Wall under Hadrian” by Professor David Breeze
The process of building Hadrian’s Wall with its several layers of changes helps us to understand how it was intended to work. The role of Hadrian in the design and building of his Wall Created a unique monument, moreover, in order to understand this frontier better we must relate it to the way the Roman army operated and fought. Leo Rivet’s ‘evidence by analogy’ will be brought into play so that we can also better understand Hadrian’s Wall through comparison with other Roman and Greek linear barriers.
The 2019 Rhind Lectures, entitled “Hadrian’s Wall: A Study in Archaeological Exploration and Interpretation” and presented by Professor David Breeze OBE, BA, PhD, Hon DLitt, FSA, Hon FSA Scot, FRSE, Hon CIfA. Recorded in the National Museums Scotland auditorium at 2pm on 11 May 2019 by Mallard Productions Ltd. Sponsored by AOC Archaeology Group.
The Lectures
Hadrian’s Wall was written about even when it was occupied. The Romans produced souvenirs of the Wall, medieval scribes placed it on maps, antiquarian visitors recorded the remains, scholars from the Renaissance onwards argued about its date and purpose, and early archaeologists uncovered its walls. The age of modern discoveries started in the 1830s and over the succeeding 150 years a very substantial archaeological dataset has been created. The addition of new material, combined with new approaches to archaeological investigation, ensures that interpretations constantly require review.
These Rhind lectures examine the ways that data has been created, and then to move on to examine specific aspects of Hadrian’s Wall in depth, in particular its purpose and operation over time and its effect on the local population. In the final lecture, we look at the Wall today and some aspects of its future.
The Lecturer
Professor David J Breeze OBE, BA, PhD, Hon DLitt, FSA, Hon FSA Scot, FRSE, Hon CIfA was President of the Society from 1987-90. He served as Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Scotland from 1989 to 2005 and as Chairman of the International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies until 2015. He has excavated on both Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall and published books on both as well as on Roman frontiers generally and on the Roman army.

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I remember watching David Breeze sprinting along and then vaulting into Peter Connolly's reconstructed Roman saddle mounted on a wooden horse. At the Roman Army day school at Durham University, circa 1985. 😲

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Breeze is an expert in his field and this is a brilliant discussion of the planning, purpose and implications of Hadrian's Wall

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I truly appreciate that the person filming this essentially gave up showing the slides immediately.

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Brilliant presentation.

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