Tristan Hughes

And why do we think, and I love these big questions, why was it built?

And also that idea, you know, for the people that they've just taken over south of the wall, right?

Yes, you say a symbol of power.

The Romans saying, we are now here.

We can build things like this beyond your wildest dreams, almost with the amount of manpower.

You know, we are the top dog now and we are here to stay, I guess.

Tough luck.

Well, that brings the question.

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?