What Was Life Actually Like For Romans Stationed on Hadrians Wall? with Dan Snow

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@williamberven-ph5ig
@williamberven-ph5ig 2 ай бұрын
It's amazing how much of the Roman Empire ruins still exist. My favorite was a trip to Pompeii. It was the slow season and lagging on a guided tour, I found myself on a street alone, quiet except for a crisp wind. For a moment I felt transported 2000 years into the past. The piles of pumice stones, ( still everywhere) exuded a burnt smell. I could almost hear the roar from the distant arena. A tour group rounded the corner breaking the spell but for those few moments, I was a time traveler. It was a truly magical experience I'll never forget.
@zbigniewkosior2517
@zbigniewkosior2517 Ай бұрын
Sounds great unforgettable!!!
@amc5966
@amc5966 4 ай бұрын
Brilliant. Live an hour away from the wall, only visited a few times but learned more in this doc than anything else. Thankyou guys.
@Bluefinn21
@Bluefinn21 4 ай бұрын
You should visit the Hancock museum in Newcastle, it’s free entry and lots of info on our local history
@nzessmam
@nzessmam 4 ай бұрын
I live at the coast at the eastern end 5 miles from Wallsend
@mkhanman12345
@mkhanman12345 3 ай бұрын
I’m about to learn
@tateyoung3048
@tateyoung3048 13 күн бұрын
I’ve hiked Hadrian’s Wall twice in my life and you should consider doing that. Great way to see it and there are B &Bs along the way to stay at as well as a great museum at Housesteads Fort.
@luckyspurs
@luckyspurs 4 ай бұрын
Find historical experts so engaging and charismatic in a way to listen to. It's just fun listening to people who really care and are doing something they clearly love as a job. There's a bounce and energy to it.
@badofcheese
@badofcheese 4 ай бұрын
The guy from Newcastle Uni was a really good example of that. So engaging and enthusiastic.
@xj3ewok
@xj3ewok 4 ай бұрын
Indeed he was so happy to be talking about something he loves
@GeraldWalker-p6l
@GeraldWalker-p6l 4 ай бұрын
That's what I like about Dan snow he doesn't try to make it about himself he just tries to present and he gets the best people he can find for information I think he's one of the best out there I think I might have got a little bit of a man crush on him on that special he did on the British Navy😮 just those shots of him sailing up and down the Thames river and his sailboat by himself was really really cool
@crandleberrysadie
@crandleberrysadie 4 ай бұрын
Paul Cooper at Fall of Civilizations is also amazing.
@barnzYT
@barnzYT 4 ай бұрын
Some may be surprised but Jeremy Clarksons historical documentaries were really good to watch because he is genuinely interested in what he’s talking about you can tell, rather than just reading a script
@TerryHickey-xt4mf
@TerryHickey-xt4mf 4 ай бұрын
I am English but my parents took us off to the antipodes, after 60 years my (Australian) wife and I went back to see what my family had left all those years ago. One of my main objectives was to visit Hadrian's wall. We were not disappointed, just like the video, we were amazed at the sheer scale of the forts, something I knew nothing about when I was a kid. The one we went to housed 800 men, and the all the forts were quite close together.. The main road sort of follows the wall from coast to coast, and it took us quite a while to travel it by car. Just imagine having to 'build' your way across? My mate here in NZ is from Scotland, and we have endless fun discussing what we, and they, did all that time ago. The bottom line is at least after the Romans left we had viniculture, could walk the streets at night in safety, and indeed had decent streets to walk on at last. . Sewerage systems, baths, Latin, and of course the right of men to have a baby.
@bn3121
@bn3121 4 ай бұрын
Brilliant reference 😂
@reggawardle4874
@reggawardle4874 3 ай бұрын
Don't forget the aqueducts 😂..went to infant school and was always told about the Roman fort under our feet..years later worked at said fort after schools got knocked down..brilliant it all was..it's arbeia..
@SpLiC3
@SpLiC3 4 ай бұрын
What a wonderful documentary. More Rome, Greece etc please Dan mate, i can't get enough of antiquity. Thanks again History Hit, brilliant.
@williamrobinson7435
@williamrobinson7435 4 ай бұрын
Beautifully written and presented. Nice one Dan and team! 🌟👍
@greghustwaite7450
@greghustwaite7450 2 ай бұрын
I love this documentary, thank you. I live in the town of Wallsend - Tyne & Wear in an estate called Hadrian Park, although my town is usually documented as where the wall starts. I have the attraction of the Segedunum fort ruins a 20 minute walk away with an accompanying museum yet it's good to get more depth into the walls past.
@b4d69
@b4d69 4 ай бұрын
another quite exceptional documentary. the problem with these, oddly enough, is they cannot be listened to passively while e.g. gaming or writing an essay; the quality is so superior i find i have to actively watch the documentary and keep my other tasks on standby for the duration (of course, a not unsavoury problem to have!)
@katherinepotter1528
@katherinepotter1528 3 ай бұрын
Me too
@bmyra
@bmyra 3 ай бұрын
​@@katherinepotter1528Same here. I couldn't risk missing a word, and had to rewind a few times when to make sure I didn't miss anything.
@waltbilous5898
@waltbilous5898 4 ай бұрын
I loved your documentary. Many years ago, on a tour if the UK, I visited one section of the wall and vowed to one day, return to see more of it,. Maybe I will someday hike the entire length of the wall. Hiking is probably one of the best ways to see the wall and the beautiful countryside.
@gregor393
@gregor393 4 ай бұрын
W. H. Auden got it right - Roman Wall Blues Over the heather the wet wind blows, I've lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose. The rain comes pattering out of the sky, I'm a Wall soldier, I don't know why. The mist creeps over the hard grey stone, My girl's in Tungria; I sleep alone. Aulus goes hanging around her place, I don't like his manners, I don't like his face. Piso's a Christian, he worships a fish; There'd be no kissing if he had his wish. She gave me a ring but I diced it away; I want my girl and I want my pay. When I'm a veteran with only one eye I shall do nothing but look at the sky.
@AnnaAnna-uc2ff
@AnnaAnna-uc2ff 4 ай бұрын
Wonderful. Thank you.
@APT1066
@APT1066 4 ай бұрын
Dan entirely squandered the opportunity to say 'Biggus, Dickus'.
@benjamin_jacob.
@benjamin_jacob. 2 ай бұрын
Wait until he finds a relief of Incontinentia Buttocks. edit…pun NOT intended
@lisalesinszki7536
@lisalesinszki7536 2 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂 He’s got a wife, you know…….
@benjamin_jacob.
@benjamin_jacob. 2 ай бұрын
@@lisalesinszki7536 that lisp of his absolutely kills me!
@glenbeaver2784
@glenbeaver2784 Ай бұрын
Well to be fair he's probably not schooled in hard history he just presents it.😂
@tashamorriss8997
@tashamorriss8997 20 күн бұрын
Cos he's not crude like the Montys, thank God. Nobody nowadays can make a joke or a TV show without blatant, pornographic nudity, or without referring to crude sexual terms.
@terencegamble4548
@terencegamble4548 4 ай бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you. History Hit gives me another dimension to my understanding of the human condition over time.
@jokir67
@jokir67 4 ай бұрын
They didn’t really touch on the vallum that much in this but there are some parts where it is walkable and the ditches and undulations are still there, admittedly not as deep now. Even after 2000 years the earthworks are still apparent! When you were digging those ditches could you have imagined millennia later they would still be a visible feature? I find that amazing.
@michaelcleary7065
@michaelcleary7065 4 ай бұрын
Having worked on many large earthworks projects I wonder if anything I've built will still be here in milliena to come 🤔
@TerryHickey-xt4mf
@TerryHickey-xt4mf 4 ай бұрын
That is just what I thought when I visited Stonehenge recently, twice the age of Hadrian's wall, and hard to believe it was built 2000 years before Christ., considering how seemingly barbaric some civilizations were in the past, (and still are in some parts). Plundering the stones etc must have been a full time job, they are big! and we are lucky they are still some there at Stonehenge after 4000 years of English winters, endless invasions, and local plundering. When I was a kid, and before we emigrated to Ausi in the 1960's, Stonehenge was still an unknown, I carved my name on one, as it was not 'protected' in those days. Sacrilege I know, but the day before we visited it this year somebody painted it orange. Luckily it was all back to normal the next day after the water blasters got into it. After all, 10000 people visit it on a good day, and over 15000 later that week on the summer solstice before dawn. When I was a kid you would be lucky to get 10 in a day, and by the way, I found out dawn is VERY early at that time of year!
@Faz99Master
@Faz99Master 3 ай бұрын
A fantastic documentary/journey! A subject I knew absolutely nothing about. Now to dig in deeper!
@BMW7series251
@BMW7series251 4 ай бұрын
Brilliant. Thanks Dan & Team.
@Michael-ps4vn
@Michael-ps4vn Ай бұрын
Thank you very much for this wonderful journey back to Ancient Rome. I watched with amazement and genuine interest. Best regards from Germany (Gallia Belgica). God save the emperor. ✋
@Maybeabandaid9
@Maybeabandaid9 4 ай бұрын
Lovely. I know how I am spending my Thursday evening.
@samuelgarrod8327
@samuelgarrod8327 4 ай бұрын
Must be short evenings where you are....
@yesitsme8606
@yesitsme8606 3 ай бұрын
I have been to the wall, its an amazing piece of History to experience.
@Fatherofheroesandheroines
@Fatherofheroesandheroines 4 ай бұрын
23:40 so..Biggus Dickus DID exist!
@hunter-et3ty
@hunter-et3ty 4 ай бұрын
this made my day hahaha
@ScandzaVaeringjar
@ScandzaVaeringjar 4 ай бұрын
No sire.. that is horizontalis dickus !
@luckyspurs
@luckyspurs 4 ай бұрын
Could he pronounce S's though.
@tt8807
@tt8807 4 ай бұрын
🤭
@TerryHickey-xt4mf
@TerryHickey-xt4mf 4 ай бұрын
remember, he wranked highly in wrome.!
@jonbaxter2254
@jonbaxter2254 4 ай бұрын
An incredible piece of history you can actually see and wander about on.
@EGSBiographies-om1wb
@EGSBiographies-om1wb 4 ай бұрын
Thsi vid was well worth my time to watch. As an ignorant Yankee,I didnt know anything about Hedrons Wall until I saw a vid from Simon Whistler a couple years ago.
@pgs1796
@pgs1796 Ай бұрын
I can still remember back in the late 80's walking along a section of the wall with a friend from college who'd invited me up to stay for a few days, accompanied overhead by US A-10's running up and down the same!
@nzessmam
@nzessmam 4 ай бұрын
Arbeia is not actually part of the wall. It was the supply depot for the wall located in modern day South Shields on the south side of the river mouth. The most easterly fort was Segadunum found in Wallsend. On the North bank of the Tyne. Arbeia is well worth a visit - it not only has a reconstruction of the western gatehouse but it has reconstructions of a barrack block and the commandant’s house. I have been many times.
@stevegordon2032
@stevegordon2032 25 күн бұрын
What a fascinating presentation. I loved every minute of this. Kudos to all involved in making it.
@peterjhillier7659
@peterjhillier7659 Ай бұрын
Excellent Dan Thank you for sharing.
@pearldiver7
@pearldiver7 Ай бұрын
Excellent, informative video. Thank you so much for the interesting episode. Particularly as enlightenment for a very rainy day visit we (my sister and I) made to Hadrian's Wall during a trip through the UK in 2019. Fascinating details on the lives of the men of the wall.
@fredsmith112
@fredsmith112 3 ай бұрын
I was lucky to visit Palmyra thirty years ago. This tomb stone is similar to palmaryne tower tombs, Also there's a headstone of a roman citizen from Syria at Barh museum as well, google dead cities and you will see roman villas still being used as dwelling in Syria
@SparklingDiva1111
@SparklingDiva1111 Ай бұрын
Really wonderful to get this detailed insight of the ins and outs of the wall. Thank you for sharing!
@erpthompsonqueen9130
@erpthompsonqueen9130 4 ай бұрын
Thank you. Watching from Alaska. 🤔
@glenharrison123
@glenharrison123 4 ай бұрын
Another great film,thanks Dan!
@nohbuddy1
@nohbuddy1 4 ай бұрын
11:08 I always love in shot/reverse shot with interviews how they have to get the person asking questions to nod lol
@travisinthetrunk
@travisinthetrunk 4 ай бұрын
I see Dan Snow, I click.
@sniper60605
@sniper60605 3 ай бұрын
He is good, his father was great as well.
@tashamorriss8997
@tashamorriss8997 20 күн бұрын
Always - save to!
@badofcheese
@badofcheese 4 ай бұрын
I live right by Hadrian’s wall. Don’t pay enough attention to it. Very interesting.
@TerryHickey-xt4mf
@TerryHickey-xt4mf 4 ай бұрын
you don't see much of it from the main road, just the signs.
@Deluxedracula
@Deluxedracula 4 ай бұрын
Dan Snow saying in a posh accent “Why is there a penis on the wall” made me do a double take and rewind haha
@AnnaAnna-uc2ff
@AnnaAnna-uc2ff 4 ай бұрын
posh?
@Deluxedracula
@Deluxedracula 3 ай бұрын
@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff Yeah, he’s related to Royalty or married to Royalty or something like that, plus did the whole Cambridge/Oxford thing
@williamberven-ph5ig
@williamberven-ph5ig 2 ай бұрын
That's where the Romans kept them.
@divinadecosio
@divinadecosio 4 ай бұрын
I found Roman Empire history to be just fascinating, so much that one of my little dog's name is Dacia and the other one is Galia.
@ichbinzwardummaber
@ichbinzwardummaber 4 ай бұрын
Just noticed again these days, how much inspiration J.R.R Martin gained from british history War of the roses, the Hadrian Wall and everywhere smaller things all over the history of Westeros, like Aegon the Conqueror inspired by the Norman Invasion
@samuelgarrod8327
@samuelgarrod8327 4 ай бұрын
🥱
@Fein528
@Fein528 16 күн бұрын
Similar to J.R.Tolkien, huge influence from Celtic culture, even the ‘Shire’ comes from county names in England; Yorkshire, Shropshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Lincolnshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire etc and so many more.
@1999worldfamous
@1999worldfamous 3 ай бұрын
So the kids at my school were carving protection wards into the desks at school? How nice of them.
@whereweregoingwedontneedroads
@whereweregoingwedontneedroads 3 ай бұрын
Lost count the amount of times i have walked the wall. Great scenery. Tough in parts.
@ladybarbarapinsonartist431
@ladybarbarapinsonartist431 Ай бұрын
Bravo! Another brilliant documentary.
@gaius_enceladus
@gaius_enceladus 4 ай бұрын
"Brrrrrrr.......... it's cold up here, by Jupiter. I hope Livia can send me some thick woolen socks, by Mercury! "
@Exiledk
@Exiledk 4 ай бұрын
We don't know that it was so cold back then.... it may have been warmer.
@jareddemarzo8196
@jareddemarzo8196 3 ай бұрын
An Asterix reference?
@ivodebruijn
@ivodebruijn 4 ай бұрын
29:55 The Batavians were not Belgians but a Germanic tribe from present day The Netherlands. They lived within the Roman borderlands in the Rhine delta and were exempt from taxation. Instead, they supplied the Roman army with special troops, mostly troops that were specialized in fighting in estuarine conditions. Even the personal bodyguards of the emperor were Batavians at some point.
@brinta2868
@brinta2868 3 ай бұрын
@ivodebruijn The man was correct though calling them Belgians. Look up "Gallia Belgica" on Wikipedia. It was a province of the Roman Empire which included Batavia. All people in the province were considered "Belgae" after its largest tribe in present day Belgium. Words and names can have different meanings in different contexts.
@ivodebruijn
@ivodebruijn 3 ай бұрын
@@brinta2868 A quick search on the always dependable Wikipedia tells me that that's not correct. Batavia was in fact part of the "Germania Inferior" province. But that might have not always have been te case of course.
@brinta2868
@brinta2868 3 ай бұрын
@@ivodebruijn "The northeastern part of Gallia Belgica was split off and renamed Germania Inferior, later to be reorganized and renamed as Germania Secunda." Wikipedia
@lws7394
@lws7394 3 ай бұрын
@@brinta2868 So you should know the man talking here was wrong ! In Ceasars days the Rhine delta was part of Belgica, but from 89AD part of the province Germanica Inferior. The construction of Hadrians Wall was from 122AD on. Furthermore the use of 'Belgians' and 'Syrians' is not right . There were no Belgians or Germans , but Belgae from currentday Belgium and Northern France. The Belgae were Celtic tribes, whereas the Batavii and Eburones were 'Germanic' tribes. The Eburones being from the Belgian/Dutch/German border area is open for debate, but the Batavii were from the Rhine, Waal, Maas river area, The actual Roman Rhine border. As you say 'Words have different meaning in different contexts' . We are talking about the 2nd and 3rd century AD here. So Simon Elliott mentioning the 'Batavians, from the Rhine Delta, were 'Belgians' is plain wrong and very sloppy for a historian.. ( I may assume that the man knows that the Rhine goes through Netherlands, not through Belgium ).
@Blisterdude123
@Blisterdude123 4 ай бұрын
Rather unpleasant, one imagines. The Romans even came up with a slang word for the people up there, found written on a soldiers' note to home, and found nowhere else in the Roman record. 'Brittunculi', or 'nasty little Britons' lol
@dotdashdotdash
@dotdashdotdash 4 ай бұрын
I wonder what they would think of Londinium these days...
@zomgbat
@zomgbat 4 ай бұрын
@@dotdashdotdash What does this even mean?
@scoobyview
@scoobyview 4 ай бұрын
@@zomgbatmore balderdash from the ‘everything’s fallen!’ Bore brigade who have no idea how diverse Rome was.
@wodensol5000
@wodensol5000 4 ай бұрын
​@@scoobyview They literally discuss it in this video that they purposefully split up ethnic groups and put them into other areas to prevent rebellion and demoralise them. The Roman empire would have worked regardless. You're essentially saying that it's a good thing, the diversity of the empire, when they did it for power and control. Trying to equate that to modern day diversity, saying it's a good thing, is laughable and shows a lack of understanding of the Roman empire. With or without diversity, the empire would have worked, and it's diversity was a BAD thing. It relied on slavery, on forcing groups apart, on colonialism, on genocide, on war and torture and death. The modern western world now relies on diversity in a similar way. To break up ethnic and cultural groups. Postering that it's only a good thing, and that any detraction is just right wing hokey-pokey, tells me you need to read your history books again, and then again. Obviously it's not all doom and gloom, but the argument is far, far more nuanced. The Roman empire was BAD for non Roman culture and ethnic groups, but it was good, in a base way, for the individual. Once you had the Christianisation of Rome, interestingly, so-called pillars of morality, you see all this played out at an even more perverse, grander scale. So whenever the Christian right applaud Rome as being great, I can't help but laugh.
@scoobyview
@scoobyview 4 ай бұрын
@@wodensol5000 all I said was that it was diverse.
@androd-87
@androd-87 3 ай бұрын
I’ve up there twice. It’s amazing.
@skyhigh1154
@skyhigh1154 4 ай бұрын
Gottah love Dan 😊
@Czer141
@Czer141 4 ай бұрын
Great work
@Whoosh0001
@Whoosh0001 4 ай бұрын
Absolutely great episode. Thx.
@Luubelaar
@Luubelaar 2 ай бұрын
I visited the wall in September this year (2024). Wanted to go to Birdoswald but it's quite out of the way, I didn't have a car, and the "AD122" bus (yes, it's really called that) doesn't go there. So I went to Housesteads fort instead and also Vindolanda. Definitely worth it. You can walk to Birdoswald, but it's about 5-6 miles from Haltwhistle, and the day I went, the weather was utterly shite. 😂 Poured raining most of the day.
@Onthecouch-r5r
@Onthecouch-r5r 4 ай бұрын
I've been up there on exercise with the army in January it was brutal and that was with cold weather kit.
@Stoney_AKA_James
@Stoney_AKA_James 4 ай бұрын
Looks like I'm not the only one binge watching somme of Paul's older videos! #RIP_Paul!
@cocomix9718
@cocomix9718 2 ай бұрын
It may have only have had a timber palisade but the Antonine wall in Scotland is massive in comparison to Hadrian's wall. Many times higher and wider, it makes Hadrian's wall look like something round a garden on a housing estate!
@daverudd-zt3ob
@daverudd-zt3ob 7 күн бұрын
No it wasn't. It was a much more basic, shorter and lower wall mostly made of sod. Hadrian's was stronger, higher and better fortified... what you see now is basically just a few courses since most of the stone was repurposed around the region.
@THEJMAROCK91
@THEJMAROCK91 4 ай бұрын
Grabbing popcorn right now
@livethefuture2492
@livethefuture2492 3 ай бұрын
Interestingly it kind of reminds me of the berlin wall...especially in the physical layout of the wall with successive belts of obstacles and even the actual height of the wall which again feels very reminiscent that particular style of barrier.
@joe-vl3nd
@joe-vl3nd 4 ай бұрын
Great show
@LornaBall
@LornaBall 4 ай бұрын
Interesting 🧐🌸💜
@Jayjay-qe6um
@Jayjay-qe6um 4 ай бұрын
American author George R.R. Martin has acknowledge that Hadrian's Wall was the inspiration for "The Wall" in his best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire.
@aspenrebel
@aspenrebel 3 ай бұрын
I've been to Hadrian's Wall as a kid. I forget exactly where along the wall. I believe it some places along the wall they had like bathhouses or steam rooms. But those may have just been for the Upper Crust.
@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw
@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw 4 ай бұрын
Great show man
@troygaspard6732
@troygaspard6732 4 ай бұрын
It blows my mind to think of Romanian teen boys manning part of Hadrian's Wall.
@liamkisbee8117
@liamkisbee8117 4 ай бұрын
It blows my mind to think a Latin empire once ruled Britain and we once spoke Latin, there would have been men from allover the empire here once upon a time
@patelien
@patelien 4 ай бұрын
Hence the phallic reliefs. Humans aren’t always immature darlings
@BHuang92
@BHuang92 4 ай бұрын
The Wall in Game of Thrones is an homage to the Hadrian Wall. Those Roman soldiers must've felt like they are on the very edge of civilization, guarding it against the dreadful unknown.
@vickymassey1479
@vickymassey1479 4 ай бұрын
If they were fed enough propaganda without seeing for themselves, who knows what they would have believed about the Northern occupants. Interesting to ponder.
@lazorbheeemz
@lazorbheeemz 4 ай бұрын
maybe to guard against the gods, the only worthy challegers of the roman empire
@samuelgarrod8327
@samuelgarrod8327 4 ай бұрын
​@@lazorbheeemzWhy did it fall then?
@timfeeney7921
@timfeeney7921 4 ай бұрын
With that mindset, imagine being told you are going to go on patrol in the north. Crazy
@KingGayCockroach
@KingGayCockroach 4 ай бұрын
Shut up asian
@Lexthetician
@Lexthetician 4 ай бұрын
Wow I’m so early! Cant wait
@PozoContactos
@PozoContactos 3 күн бұрын
Whatever you personally think about the Romans, they were absolutely accomplished Architects....... Respect Due...
@50brian50
@50brian50 4 ай бұрын
I was born Wallsend. Our terrace house was built on the remaining of the wall they we're pulled down in 1976 they now have the segedunum fort
@ellenanortje3707
@ellenanortje3707 2 ай бұрын
Fascinating!
@Chadswonderfulwalkingtours
@Chadswonderfulwalkingtours 15 күн бұрын
Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan
@davehoward22
@davehoward22 4 ай бұрын
Amazing so much survives.
@TytanTrollMiniatures
@TytanTrollMiniatures Ай бұрын
"They were trying to imbue some magic into the wall" Roman Legionarii: *holding back laughter*
@tomjones7593
@tomjones7593 4 ай бұрын
For some years I was privileged to fish for trout from a boat on Crag Loch (the only 'loch'/lake in England); it is always the first drone photo when the Wall is shown; it is called 'crag' because to the south (Roman) side of the lake is a near-vertical cliff of maybe 300 feet in height; to attack the wall a barbarian from the North would have had to- swim the freezing cold loch (it's quite deep) and climb the cliff and THEN attack the Romans. Seems an unlikely battle plan; however even at that the legions built their wall atop the crag I used to imagine the boredom of a soldier gazing northwards from up there, knowing that if he lived to be a hundred he would never see action in that place. I wonder if they stole down and fished for the trout ?
@jimmyoconnell6167
@jimmyoconnell6167 4 ай бұрын
I live at the End of it Wallsend Newcastle
@mariasawa4872
@mariasawa4872 4 ай бұрын
Refreshing to see a historian NOT complaining about an insufficient number of ditches.
@TerryHickey-xt4mf
@TerryHickey-xt4mf 4 ай бұрын
they didn't have to dig them.
@reggawardle4874
@reggawardle4874 3 ай бұрын
​@@TerryHickey-xt4mfthat's not a roman attitude..strict rules make big empires
@reggawardle4874
@reggawardle4874 3 ай бұрын
Don't mention ditches,, scraped forever on ditches of arbeia..😂😂
@coaxialembryo
@coaxialembryo 4 ай бұрын
I’m from South Shields I need to visit these places
@robertcorradi8573
@robertcorradi8573 Ай бұрын
Excellent..
@JJLewin1
@JJLewin1 4 ай бұрын
Truly amazing
@withnail70
@withnail70 4 ай бұрын
You needed to show some artists' impressions of how the wall looked at its full height, in its heyday, rather than just the gatehouse at Arbeia. There are plenty of them. And it needed to be done near the start of the video, to impress the uninitiated, particularly children, who might see you standing next to the present day remains and think 'What's all the fuss about ? It doesn't look so imposing to me ! How did that keep the barbarians at bay for 450 years ?' Also, there are the magnificent views of the wall as it passes the crags between Twice Brewed and (ex 😢) Sycamore Gap, to show how the Whin Sill escarpment added to the wall's height, which you should have included earlier rather than just one brief shot at the end. Even Ant & Dec did a better job of depicting the lives of the garrisons and local farmers living along the wall, how it acted as a porous control point, illustrated by the fascinating letters written on preserved wax tablets, a unique glimpse of 'history from below' not found in other parts of the Roman Empire. A bit lazy again, Dan. 😢
@duncanself5111
@duncanself5111 4 ай бұрын
Phallic graffiti never gets old
@TerryHickey-xt4mf
@TerryHickey-xt4mf 4 ай бұрын
like the rude man in chalk
@Chaucy
@Chaucy 3 ай бұрын
@7:17 "Why is there a huge penis on the wall" classic. lads were having fun.
@manricobianchini5276
@manricobianchini5276 4 ай бұрын
The Romans were awesome. Conquerors and master builders.
@angeloargentieri5605
@angeloargentieri5605 3 ай бұрын
Roma= Civilizzazione
@Fein528
@Fein528 16 күн бұрын
Also murderers and slave promoters too. How ‘civilised’. 🙈😬
@lindsaydrewe8219
@lindsaydrewe8219 4 ай бұрын
Very interesting❤❤
@katherinecollins4685
@katherinecollins4685 4 ай бұрын
Really interesting
@sorrysirmygunisoneba
@sorrysirmygunisoneba 4 ай бұрын
It could be the missing link that Anglo Saxons had already started establishing themselves at the end of the Roman occupation when they converted these warehouses into halls. They were mercenaries/Roman soldiers already so it could be why Northumbria started off as one of the stronger provinces during the early AS period? They were already established/adapting to a degree by the end of the official withdrawal of the Romans compared to over provinces which had to adapt? Extremely interesting.
@aspenrebel
@aspenrebel 3 ай бұрын
So where would Roman soldiers, stationed on Hadrian's Wall, spend money, and what would they spend money on?
@saladbreath607
@saladbreath607 2 ай бұрын
Male prostitutes.
@MichaelScalet72
@MichaelScalet72 4 ай бұрын
Just a note, it's "Romans" not "Roman's" - which means "of the Roman" Please fix the title
@swanchamp5136
@swanchamp5136 4 ай бұрын
Was anyone else getting static noise when Dan was speaking at certain points in this?
@andybandyb
@andybandyb 4 ай бұрын
Sweaters be tricky. Still a young operation!
@laurelcosten1012
@laurelcosten1012 2 ай бұрын
Yes
@ATLmodK
@ATLmodK 2 ай бұрын
As he stands by the wall he asks “Did this wall come tumbling down.” You get one guess, Dan
@MichaelBOverthinking
@MichaelBOverthinking 4 күн бұрын
7:22, asking the important questions that was all have.
@davidcooper7501
@davidcooper7501 20 күн бұрын
There in 2023. Amazing. A site to see!
@denisg4288
@denisg4288 14 күн бұрын
Surprised there was no mention of the other wall further north.
@JohnMacFergus-oz5cp
@JohnMacFergus-oz5cp 2 ай бұрын
Pushy ads ruin this wonderful programs
@terryjohnson5579
@terryjohnson5579 2 ай бұрын
Also for any other Attack on Titan fans that first structure visited was probably what inspired Shiganshina and the Trost districts.
@Abominable_Intelligences
@Abominable_Intelligences 2 ай бұрын
14:36 My elderly Mom was like *"Tombstone of what?"*
@warlock1969
@warlock1969 4 ай бұрын
Why did you not go to Wallsend - Segedunum?
@robbieevans6536
@robbieevans6536 3 ай бұрын
I'm sort of fascinated about what went on at the wall after the Romans left.
@sameek415
@sameek415 4 ай бұрын
dude looked like daniel tosh in the thumbnail and now I want history vids with daniel tosh.
@King.Mark.
@King.Mark. 4 ай бұрын
Beware the eyes of march 👀
@elijahhodges4405
@elijahhodges4405 Ай бұрын
What did Britania really lose when Rome let go around 400 AD? They lost the continual support financial and other. They no longer sent weapons or uniforms, no more food. They didn't really abandon England. Most of those still in England stayed in England. They were the Anglos and Saxons that Bede said invaded.
@brinta2868
@brinta2868 3 ай бұрын
This channel has 1.31 million subscribers, but they still managed to have a grammatical error in the video title. Hadrians Wall => Hadrian's Wall Please correct this!
@richardhyland4610
@richardhyland4610 2 ай бұрын
You must be fun at parties.
@Birchy4More
@Birchy4More 4 ай бұрын
The North Remembers.
@paulwilliams7288
@paulwilliams7288 4 ай бұрын
And William the Bastard
@Mr99Burns
@Mr99Burns 3 ай бұрын
To be stationed in England in those days must have sucked in that climate
@corneliuscornia3189
@corneliuscornia3189 16 күн бұрын
😂😂
@Fein528
@Fein528 16 күн бұрын
Too bad for them. I don’t think the locals cared for whether the Roman soldiers were uncomfortable.
@harrybellingham98
@harrybellingham98 4 ай бұрын
so basically not really for defence but rather to divide certain Britons from the in group
@johnbeaudin
@johnbeaudin 4 ай бұрын
"Roman's" ? Spelling Hit.
@rogink
@rogink 4 ай бұрын
Did the Roman's even use apostrophes? :)
@gavindron7511
@gavindron7511 4 ай бұрын
"Spelling" ? Grammar Hit
@IlRyanWilsonlI
@IlRyanWilsonlI 4 ай бұрын
Roman is what Roman does.
@badcornflakes6374
@badcornflakes6374 4 ай бұрын
You spelled that wrong
@biggyrich
@biggyrich 4 ай бұрын
One Roman many Romen 🤣
@desmond-hawkins
@desmond-hawkins 4 ай бұрын
(7:22) Jumped at a random point near the start to see what this was about: "Rob, why is there a huge penis on the wall?" I'm hooked, let's start from the beginning.
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