22. Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast we’re walking with Neil alongside the largest Roman artefact in the whole world, Hadrian’s Wall, the boundary of Empire. And we comes to a stop at a stretch of the Wall called Sycamore Gap, where one of the most beautiful trees in the British Isles stands.
Over 70 miles long, Hadrian’s Wall is an incredible feat of engineering. Interspersed with milecastles, barracks, forts and settlements, it’s a formidable wall dividing the long island into North and South. The Romans took around 6 years to complete the wall and it was built before there were any such people called the Scots or the English. The sheer ambition and hard work needed to construct it shows just how serious the Romans were about owning the British Isles.
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| 0:37.6 | rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over. The men would strip off and reveal blue designs on their bodies. They'd evidently been wearing at some kind of message to the gods. |
| 0:57.0 | I don't need armour, I don't even need clothes. I can fight naked with the protection that I get from my gods. |
| 1:05.0 | In this podcast we're walking alongside the largest Roman artifact in the whole world. |
| 1:17.5 | Over 70 miles long, interspersed with mile castles, barracks, forts and settlements. |
| 1:25.0 | Built in a time before there were any such people as the Scots or the English. A formidable wall dividing this long island into north and south, highlighting Roman endeavor, ambition, and sheer hard work, a powerful statement of intent, |
| 1:50.3 | declaring just how serious the Romans were about owning these British Isles. |
| 1:57.0 | I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me and the whole world. |
| 2:07.5 | I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the British Isles. |
| 2:15.0 | Hi Neil, last week you brought the Romans to the British Isles and took us with you to the |
| 2:26.0 | incredible hot springs at Bath. Where's the next stop on our journey? |
| 2:30.9 | We're on the boundary of the mighty Roman Empire at Hadrian's Wall and more |
| 2:37.3 | specifically we're on a part of this engineering marvel that has become known as Sycamore Gap. |
| 2:45.0 | It's a place whose beauty could quite literally take your breath away. |
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