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A soldier stands guard on a stone rampart looking out towards the rolling hills beyond.

His name is Belliartus.

From atop his walkway, Belliartas can see for miles to his north and south.

He is in a valley, with green fields in front and behind him and steeping slopes on either side.

He manns a turret that is connected to a large wall that had been there for hundreds of years,

stretching from coast to coast, dividing Roman Britain from the lands of barbarians, Adrian's Wool.

For generations, Belyartis' family have been living on this distant frontier. Ever since his great-grandfather was posted here from Germania almost a century earlier.

He had gone on to complete his service, marry a local woman and settle down in the area. Beliartis' family

had stayed here ever since. The time of Roman rule over Britain had now ended. Beliartes and

his comrades were no longer receiving orders from generals further south. There were no more

Roman armies marching north to fight the

Picts beyond. But for Beliartas, his family and his comrades living on this frontier,

their lives remained largely the same. Adrian's wall had not fallen. The formidable

fortifications of the wall would become new power centres, bastions of strength for the local peoples in this new post-Roman world,

centers of faith and fealty.

This is the story of what happened to Hadrian's Wall and its people after the Romans left Britain.

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