[HN Gopher] No Stone Unturned: Hadrian's Wall ___________________________________________________________________ No Stone Unturned: Hadrian's Wall Author : magda_wang Score : 10 points Date : 2022-05-06 17:32 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.berfrois.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.berfrois.com) | alasdair_ wrote: | If you wonder where George RR Martin got the idea for a wall | keeping out the Picts^h^h^h^h^h Wildlings from invading the | "civilized" lands to the south, this is where. | | There is also the Antonine wall, which was intended to supersede | Hadrian's, which I happened to grow up a few hundred feet from. | The ruins of a Roman bathhouse are just sitting there, next to | regular houses, and almost no one ever visits them. Worth a brief | stop if you happen to be nearby. | https://www.antoninewall.org/visiting-the-wall/things-to-see... | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonine_Wall ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-07 23:00 UTC)