Tristan Hughes

But this is very much a teaser and a half.

And also, I love that how right at the start of the answer, we kind of dismiss Gildas for saying, oh, it's obviously wrong.

But actually, when you delve deeper into the story, being like, but actually, is there some kernel, some basis of truth that we can bring away from it?

So I love that kind of multi-layered.

Exactly that.

Well, in this chat, we're going to focus largely on the later 4th century and 5th century AD.

So we're not quite going into what is clearly gone medieval territory.

I think it's fair to say the 5th century AD, it's in the British context, that's the transitional phase from what we say antiquity to Middle Ages, don't we?

So we can kind of get away with it there.

And that's a period we'll often call late antiquity.

Late antiquity.

We can still say the 5th century AD is late antiquity in Britain.

There we go.

Fantastic.

Eat that, Matt.

We did a fun episode in the past about what's ancient and what's medieval.

But if we start very much in the Roman period, so let's say maybe the 360s or the 370s AD, what do we know about Hadrian's Wall at that time?

How monumental are the constructions along Hadrian's Wall?

Give us a picture of Hadrian's Wall at that time.

It's normally two turrets between each mile castle.