Dr. Francis McIntosh

Yeah, so we say, you know, construction began in 122.

Maybe it began in 120.

Going to be controversial here.

It was two years.

And it took maybe around 10 years to finish building.

And then it's occupied for nearly 300 years.

So in 2022, you know, we celebrated the wall's birthday.

That wasn't the official slogan.

I wasn't allowed to choose.

It was 1900 years of Hadrian's Wall.

Yeah, it was a great sort of moment to reflect and look back.

And lots of us, you know, on the wall, English Heritage, Neil Grawler, other people.

English Heritage and the other organisations who helped look after stretches of the wall.

You know, we did celebrations, we did new exhibitions, had events and things.

It was great to sort of really, you know, remind everybody what the wall was and what it was there for.

three days you're gonna try and summarize into about three minutes for good luck yeah so probably no one single reason even if hadrian had one in his head there were other reasons that were just as important it probably changed throughout its life hadrian is known as a consolidator emperor you know he seeds back land you know that his immediate predecessor had got he puts lines in the sand or in the rivers etc in other parts of the empire in britain our line is

ended up being quite big, quite a statement.

It's stone.

Is that because there's more trouble?

Is that because he needed to make more of a statement in Britain?