WALL: ROMES GREATEST FRONTIER (HADRIANS WALL) (PB)

Hadrian's Wall is the largest and most spectacular historical monument in Britain: a land wall of 73 miles and a sea wall stretching 26 miles down the Cumbrian coast. It consists of more than 24 million stones, giving it a mass greater than all the Egyptian pyramids put together. In this book, based on literary and historical sources as well as the latest archaeological research, Alistair Moffat considers who built the Wall, how it was built and why, and how it affected the peoples who lived in its mighty shadow.