Tristan Hughes

Do you think that the building of this wall would have displaced many local Britons or it would have affected their day to day lives?

Paying each time to go north and south.

But do we think the crux of those societies that were there before the Romans put the bigger line in the dirt, I guess, not really sand in Northern England, you know, they were farming communities.

They were these small groups of peoples, you know, linked together.

We think of the roundhouse idea and all that.

And that should we be imagining those kind of communities?

Then in come the Roman soldiers, in comes the creation of this militarised zone, which is a mile or so south of the wall as well.

It's quite a large area that Hadrian's Wall then takes up when we talk about Hadrian's Wall.

We need to do an episode on that.

We've never done one.

Syria.

That's Syria, isn't it?

Yeah.

And they're well known for their archers, aren't they?

Ooh.

Okay, that's exciting.

It's got to be reinforced, doesn't it?

I mean, even if they might, and then they might marry locally and then their children will then kind of take up the mantle when they grow up.

Is that the idea as well?

So can we imagine that with these communities, these soldier communities, but of course, much more than just soldiers and their families and so on.