I just walked Hadrian’s wall in April 2023 - took my time spent a few days exploring several spots - most excellent walk. Loved the wall - can’t even find enough words to express how magic it was ♥️🇨🇦
You sound as though you thoroughly enjoyed the walk & who would blame you, it's a fascinating, breathtaking, majestic journey & I'm sure you've inspired others to go walk the wall themselves.
I absolutely love British and Scottish and Welsh history! I have zero connection or DNA from that part of the world however history from your island has always fascinated me. Thanks for the documentary!
Arbeia is my local fort. I’ve been going there regularly over the past 3 decades, since I was old enough to walk. I love Arbeia, because it captured my imagination and my love of Roman history. I read the works of the Roman authors, collect ancient Roman coins, and when I’m asked, I show my friends and family around some of the forts, especially Arbeia.
Standardizing the fort also helps with construction and maintenance. They would know how much material was needed to build it and how best to maintain it based upon their experience at other locations.
Hi. I recommend booking in advance. I stayed at the Scottish Mews on day two - excellent place. She makes a great lunch for you to take. Twice brewed is a great place to stay. It’s right beside the Roman sit Vindolanda. Also their breakfast was really good. I stayed at the travel lodge at hexham for two nights - hexham was a cool place to see. It’s by the bus stop and a tesco ( grocery store). You can walk the wall in 5 to 7 days depending on what your speed is and how much you want to see. I stopped at everything - the greenwood museum is worth seeing. Chester’s was okay. I stayed extra time at some places. There is a service that will take you knapsack to your next destination so you don’t have to pack it if you wish. The walk is breathtaking. I hope you go!! ♥️🇨🇦
A while ago when i was a school boy the teacher asked us ,,"where was Hadrians wall ?",to which the smart lad next to me replied "behind Hadrians house".
Magic, gotta give the Kid Credit for Whit..! Hope the Teacher at least Giggled inside..! Dealing with Smart Arsed kids could have taken the Edge off, the Smart Arsed kids Retort..! Made me Chuckle at least.!! 😂
That was absolutely fascinating and thank you so much, it was utterly brilliant. I grew up near Newcastle and I’ve always felt lucky and privileged to be brought up near such a of historical interest re the Roman Empire. Thank you again.
I can't stop watching the narrator's hands. They do the same movement over and over and over with every - single- word - he - says. It's mesmerizing. I have no idea about anything regarding Hadrian's wall, but I watched his arms flail over a hundred thousand times now.
Yup, its all I could see. There is a mitchel and webb parody of a historian and his flailing hands, so I suspect its a thing, a thing that they all think is a good idea for some reason.
It is a very wonderful documentary. amazing..full of accurate information. He deserves great admiration and praise. I salute you with all the beautiful words and sincere feelings for your sincere efforts in producing this distinguished and wonderful work. I wish you lasting success and all goodness and happiness. You are the best in the best. I have the utmost respect, pride, and appreciation.
I really enjoyed this. It made it even better to put all 3 episodes together. Tristan's comment about the barrack room being "cozy" may have been a bit off the mark. By putting 2 sets of 4 high bunks in there, there would've been a fair amount of room. Certainly enough for a table where 4 of the soldiers could've played cards or dice. You have to remember that during the day these guys would've been out building, patrolling, and other jobs they might've been assigned. Aboard a modern naval vessel there might be even more in the same amount of area.
Went to see the remains of the garrison on hadrians wall in the lake district at 0:15, absolutely loved it and the museum, I like how much the romans left behind them when the empire fell. Lots of documents of normal roman life in britain. Also bought a cheeky roman legion shield mug from the national trust
I love the idea that this huge empire that fought huge hoards of savages, barbarians,warrior armies across the planet and planted it's flag anywhere it chose then met the Scot's and thought 'fk that ! Let's just wall it off and call that the end bit "
Utter myth. The Wall defined the boundary of the Empire (as do his other walls across the Netherlands and Germany, and North Africa). The Brigantes kingdom stretched north and sout of the Wall
@@janetboles3424yeah the Roman Empire travelled the length of Europe from Rome to the edges of the then known world. Only then when they got to Britannia Major, started worrying about how much it was costing them to keep all of that garrisoned for the next 400-ish years. Yet just north of Hadrian's Wall, at the Leadhills in the west, the natives had been mining gold silver and lead, only a day or two's ride away. Over in the east, near the Forth Estuary, the Celts had been turning out high quality weapons grade carbon steel for centuries before the Romans arrived on the scene. The iron the Romans were using eg for making armour, weapons, horse shoes, and construction nails, was being mined and worked in the south, to be carted up to Caledonia. Only it now seems to have been abandoned there, when at some point the 'Pictish' natives proved less than impressed by the notion of gaining Roman citizenship than were their southern counterparts.
Sound is oddly muffled. Hadrian's Wall, like everything Hadrian did--Pantheon, elevation of Hellenic culture--is fantastic. If you visit, be sure to visit the nearby beautiful Neolithic Castlerigg stone circle.
Thank-you for your guided tours, Dr. MacIntosh! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻I find it fascinating that both the Denarii/Sesterces are in the same bank vault strong room as their standards and eagles. /// Roman Baths, the great equalizer. All walks of life were allowed to bathe there. 🛀🏻🧼🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧
that's because it was obviously very windy that day (you can see it in the vegetation), and if they didn't hide the lav mic under his coat, the sound wouldv'e been a lot more terrible, with wind noise that's impossible to edit out
Wind Noise issues for Sure. With No Wind protection on Mic. at all, It would have sounded awful without it..! Hence a little muffled but not too hard to hear. Cheers All. P.s. I have been up there Twice and both Days the wind was Bracing..! To say the Least..!!
I really appreciate how psyched the lady in the pink tank top is about all this. The manifestation of, "if your job is doing what you love, you'll never work a day in your life."
Probably.. Like most soldiers they probably wish they were back home. Roman troops seemed to do a lot of marching with extreme heavy gear, they did a lot of daily work for meager rations, delt with all kinds of fighting, delt with pictish warriors who fought mostly nude. The lower troop did all the dirty work while the civilians, Politicans, and officers and officials stayed near safe areas. Sure the scenery was likely nice.. but you see enough areas you see most areas. Weather sucks, sleep sucks. They likely had a saying similar to the US Army.. " Embrace the Suck "
I promise you they did fine, just like the millions of Mexicans who illegally cross in to the United States to live in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
The Romans tried to secure the land beyond Hadrian's Wall by marching north some 100 miles and establishing the Antonine Wall. This meant a pacified, safe southern Scotland and the Romans almost abandoned Hadrian's Wall, but not in its entirety. It wasn't to last. Rome could hang on to the Antonine Wall and after Emperor Pius' death, abandoned the wall and returned to Hadrian's wall. Hadrian's Wall then confronted its greatest test just twenty years after its recommissioning. Around 181 A.D. Caledonian and Pict warriors launched a massive raid upon Hadrian's Wall. Historical sources are scant but evidently the native warriors were able to inflict much damage and even breach the wall. The Roman governor may have been killed. It was almost the perfect time for the Scots and Picts. The Roman Empire was in deep trouble on its Danube frontiers. The Parthian War lasted five years and returning legionaries brought back a devastating plague which ravaged the empire. It scoured the ranks of the Roman Army too. Throughout the 170s emperor Marcus Aurelius was hard pressed to repel numerous barbarian coalitions and tribes raiding across the Danube River in great strength. Roman manpower was scarce in the face of the early plague and heavy war casualties against the Parthians and the Germanic Marcomanni, Quadi, Iazyges, Sarmatians, Chatti, Chauci, Bructali, and other tribes. We can possibly assume that at this time, Britain's Roman garrisons may have been understrength. There had been peace for twenty years since the abandonment of the Antonine Wall. The sudden attacks on Hadrian's Wall must have taken the Romans completely by surprise. But in the end the Caledonian and Pictish invaders were either repelled or they left on their own accord. It was the start of rough times in Britain until a new emperor, Septimus Severus, in 191 AD entered Britain with a force of six legions intending to square the Caledonian and Pict problem in Scotland once and for all. History records that after particularly savage, brutal, and genocidal warfare which cost the Romans at least the equivalent of two legions; some say four, Severus was able achieve peace in Britain for the next eighty years.
Wasn't no Scots in Scotland till 5 century my friend timelines of all cultures very important to learn facts they were brothonic peoples that wall split groups up an to divide common folk
Wow, what a bunch of moaners. Sound is muffled, gesticulating too much, thumbnails are tacky. I nearly didn't watch it because of the negativity, glad I did though, enjoyable and educational.
The Scots still are scary. The further North you head, the tougher the people you will encounter. Hard times and climatically hard places beget hard folk.
@@steveforster9764 Yeah, Geordie here and it's like banging your head against a brick wall isn't it? It's a mixture of the ignorance of the southern English and the denial of the middle belt Scots.
1:26:52 If you can put in fresh water.. you dont need to drain or plug the pools. You add new water which over fills the pools, the old water is Essentially rinsed out by new input. The water as it overflows the pool would rinse the floors. This is what i think happened in the bath house. Maybe on a nightly or bi-nightly basis, or something, somewhat frequently. You have to change the pool waters and rinse the floors, what better more efficient way then just overfilling maybe overnight when no one is in the bath house and you can use a stiff brush on the floors with the water for a better clean. . You got soldiers of all ranks, an high profile people going in the bath house so you got to have some way to attemp to keep it clean somehow.
It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about the Hadrian stones Wall in North Britain 🇬🇧 built 2000 years ago .video introduced by an amazing ( History Hit) channel.
I understand the Channel is Anglophone, but you should also do videos about Trajano, Publio Excipion, after Posteguillo Novels on the Hispanic world the interest for those has increase exponentially.
could the chalet style barracks be a response to deforestation in the area? You'd need shorter lengths of timber to go across the width a chalet style building (about 5m). Whereas to go across the width of an old style barrack block would take much longer trunks (about 12m).
Another reason for building courtyard style buildings is because they had to rely on either sunlight or torches for light so during the day the sun would light The Rooms.
There was one movie where a doctor in the Early 1900s was riding a car to deliver a baby and he was used to riding to house calls on a horse. He made the point that he thought it was warmer on top of his horse than in the car. I'm sure having three horses is a good amount of body heat. It might not be a lot, but it might take the edge off a slight chill in the fall and spring.
Trajan started as a soldier in a period where the focus was fortifying the walls on the frontier. It's what he did for years. When he became Emperor he huegly increases governors independence and agency. So Trajan could go alone the walls making sure they were up to standard. He only attacked Dacia because the leader of the Dacians didn't keep up his end of an earlier deal, the Dacian leader made forts on the wrong border, facing the wrong way. Trajan after defeating him even gave him a second chance to do as he had earlier agreed but no, 2nd war and same result, Roman victory. So a vacuum was left in Dacia (full of gold) for Trajan to fill. Then a golden opportunity arose where the Parthians had to go east to deal with their Eastern neighbour in a war, Trajan easily took a bunch of land off them. Hadrian was not Trajan's chosen heir, Trajan's wife chose him. Hadrian wasn't smart or realistic to give up the lands Trajan took, Rome could have kept them and even kept expanding. Stalling inevitably causes Rome's neighbours to unite against prosperous Rome. The main issue I have with the Roman's is that they didn't keep expanding after Augustus until situations forced Trajan's hand, then Hadrian gave it up, dooming Rome to civil war, at least until Aurelion, but then he got murdered.
As a Canadian i find it kinda quaint in what they consider a vast expanse, i would feel hemmed in... so much history packed into such a tiny space though
@@leddielive Berlin is perhaps last on my list. Vividly remember feeling elated on the early November day in 1989 when it came down, overwhelmed by the jubilation & the world-altering of it all. Living in Belgium at the time, the energy was palpable even in the streets of Brussels. My favorite may be predictable, but less so than Berlin - the Theodosian Walls. Solid.
Thank you for asking, @@thomasbell7033! First on my list has got to be *The Theodosian Walls* (part of the Walls of Constantinople/Istanbul). Those are a couple of badass walls. *Did their job spectacularly for a whole MILLENNIUM.* As far as defensive walls go, I'm a big fan of these.
Thank you for asking, @@thomasbell7033! First on my list - The Theodosian Walls (part of the Walls of Constantinople/Istanbul). Those are a couple of bad*ss walls. Did their job spectacularly for *an entire millennium.* As far as defensive walls go, I'm a big fan.
yes the officers had better accommodations with a office as they usually stayed longer periods of time while the soldiers had more movement, but on their terms sometimes a inn for a beer :)
@@jonnphoenix Sure but considering how widely the metric system is used providing such a function would be kinda nice. Quite a few documents already show the measures in more than just in feets or just in meters.
You're thinking of the wall the Romans built around Dacia, this wall was built after the Romans had already conquered Caledonia and decided there was nothing worth having
@Sagittbrit Caledonia is the central region of Scotland. There is no evidence of them entering it and staying there marching camps go around there was no defeat of northern people ( picts )
Must have remastered sound, sounds great to me. I live in Newcastle upon Tyne and there's chunks of Hadrian's Wall along the West Road. Visited Housesteads as kid in the '90's with school. In truth the wall was built to stop the mad north folk lobbing haggis at the Geordies lol 44:00: that's why we call them from South Shields Sand Dancers from the Roman use of foreigners, plus this reduces the chance of the Roman exchange students trying to help their own people still being bribed, bludgeoned or oppressed into servitude.
Not sure if you mentioned why many soldiers from all over the empire but wasn't that related to the soldier getting his citizenship after so many years of service? Re Corstopitum (Corbridge) no mention of the bath house that the local 'farmer/landowner' having it bulldozed back in 1972 when the site of the A69 would be planned THAT day! Long memory!
Sounds like his lav mic is under his jacket, probably an effort to minimize wind noise. It's quite a windy spot 27:17 when he's not wearing the jacket, the audio is considerably better
Tristan great documentary,but i think it has been proven that the wall was 20 feet high and 10 feet wide.which would have allowed soldiers to patrol it.
Some positional freedom for large sites, yes, but there exists on the wall a small tower half-way down [or up] a small dip. It could have been dominated from above on either side of the dip yet not offer a level entrance or exit to the wall itself, for military purposes [it would have been too remote for civilian use]. Like most armies, bureaucracy and daft regulations were intrinsic to daily life.
Must have been absolutely awesome in it’s heyday. BTW, Hadrian actually had other walls, apparently his Semi in Londinium had 4 walls too! Hadrian had the right idea, we need another big wall built to keep the SNP isolated and one across the centre of the English Channel to keep all those French inflatables out! Did all those featured on this piece have a couple of doses of the “Hand and Arm Waving Drug” before filming?
that's because it was obviously very windy that day (you can see it in the vegetation), and if they didn't hide the lav mic under his coat, the sound wouldv'e been a lot more terrible, with wind noise that's impossible to edit out
The amount of ad breaks is ridiculous. I get it, they are posting a free video for us to enjoy, and I greatly appreciate that. However, the constant pop up ads mid-sentence and every few minutes are so frustrating and distracting.
that's because it was obviously very windy that day (you can see it in the vegetation), and if they didn't hide the lav mic under his coat, the sound wouldv'e been a lot more terrible, with wind noise that's impossible to edit out
What if it was use to divide common people's from uniting an over throwning lots of evidence northern Britain was always the strong hold of these islands only if brigantines women queen didn't sell her husband out all account high kings of UK was in Eire Spain Germany all over leading to pythains of Anatolia Celts an all miner farmers homeland dna backs this up hill top buliders
I just walked Hadrian’s wall in April 2023 - took my time spent a few days exploring several spots - most excellent walk. Loved the wall - can’t even find enough words to express how magic it was ♥️🇨🇦
You sound as though you thoroughly enjoyed the walk & who would blame you, it's a fascinating, breathtaking, majestic journey & I'm sure you've inspired others to go walk the wall themselves.
Have been thinking about it for a while and I'm going to do it this summer 👍
I walked the wall too! In Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Took me like, 15 minutes. There was a boss fight. It was crazy, had to be there.
@Aaron-df6jc Did you simply walk it unaided or did you have a guide? Website? App? Human?
Excuse me...???
I absolutely love British and Scottish and Welsh history!
I have zero connection or DNA from that part of the world however history from your island has always fascinated me.
Thanks for the documentary!
Arbeia is my local fort. I’ve been going there regularly over the past 3 decades, since I was old enough to walk. I love Arbeia, because it captured my imagination and my love of Roman history. I read the works of the Roman authors, collect ancient Roman coins, and when I’m asked, I show my friends and family around some of the forts, especially Arbeia.
Standardizing the fort also helps with construction and maintenance. They would know how much material was needed to build it and how best to maintain it based upon their experience at other locations.
Hi. I recommend booking in advance. I stayed at the Scottish Mews on day two - excellent place. She makes a great lunch for you to take. Twice brewed is a great place to stay. It’s right beside the Roman sit Vindolanda. Also their breakfast was really good. I stayed at the travel lodge at hexham for two nights - hexham was a cool place to see. It’s by the bus stop and a tesco ( grocery store). You can walk the wall in 5 to 7 days depending on what your speed is and how much you want to see. I stopped at everything - the greenwood museum is worth seeing. Chester’s was okay. I stayed extra time at some places. There is a service that will take you knapsack to your next destination so you don’t have to pack it if you wish. The walk is breathtaking. I hope you go!! ♥️🇨🇦
And having drawings & measurements.
A while ago when i was a school boy the teacher asked us ,,"where was Hadrians wall ?",to which the smart lad next to me replied "behind Hadrians house".
I'm sure it seemed funny at the time
@@bawsack69 It was funny cause Dan was young, and had much life yet
Ho ho ho🙄 how the long winters at school must have flown by……….
Magic, gotta give the Kid Credit for Whit..!
Hope the Teacher at least Giggled inside..!
Dealing with Smart Arsed kids could have taken the Edge off, the Smart Arsed kids Retort..!
Made me Chuckle at least.!! 😂
Tee-Hee!
A quite comprehensive 3-part documentary of Roman Britain! Excellent content guys, thanks for sharing.
I'm a Northumbrian and that is the best weather I've ever seen at Housesteads.
That was absolutely fascinating and thank you so much, it was utterly brilliant. I grew up near Newcastle and I’ve always felt lucky and privileged to be brought up near such a of historical interest re the Roman Empire. Thank you again.
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Good weed huh?
I can't stop watching the narrator's hands. They do the same movement over and over and over with every - single- word - he - says. It's mesmerizing. I have no idea about anything regarding Hadrian's wall, but I watched his arms flail over a hundred thousand times now.
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Something like this? 😂
Thanks. Now I can't unsee it. 😂
Yup, its all I could see. There is a mitchel and webb parody of a historian and his flailing hands, so I suspect its a thing, a thing that they all think is a good idea for some reason.
@josephcorrell5676
Oooooh noooo me too now!
Too much gesticulating...so to speak!
I JUST finished writting and submitting a paper on this subject for my college class on Roman history
I hope your class enjoyed your report. Hadrian’s wall is a great subject to write about.
Facinating! I very read a lot about this time.in history, but this is the best program I'that really brings it to life! Bravo!
It is a very wonderful documentary. amazing..full of accurate information. He deserves great admiration and praise. I salute you with all the beautiful words and sincere feelings for your sincere efforts in producing this distinguished and wonderful work. I wish you lasting success and all goodness and happiness. You are the best in the best. I have the utmost respect, pride, and appreciation.
I really enjoyed this. It made it even better to put all 3 episodes together.
Tristan's comment about the barrack room being "cozy" may have been a bit off the mark. By putting 2 sets of 4 high bunks in there, there would've been a fair amount of room. Certainly enough for a table where 4 of the soldiers could've played cards or dice. You have to remember that during the day these guys would've been out building, patrolling, and other jobs they might've been assigned. Aboard a modern naval vessel there might be even more in the same amount of area.
Sound is NOT muffled. Excellent production and super informative. Thank you!!
LOL The sound IS muffled, when he's outside it's lost all the high frequencies.
Hi I danced on Hadrian’s wall years ago it was on my bucket list.
Went to see the remains of the garrison on hadrians wall in the lake district at 0:15, absolutely loved it and the museum, I like how much the romans left behind them when the empire fell. Lots of documents of normal roman life in britain. Also bought a cheeky roman legion shield mug from the national trust
I love the idea that this huge empire that fought huge hoards of savages, barbarians,warrior armies across the planet and planted it's flag anywhere it chose then met the Scot's and thought 'fk that ! Let's just wall it off and call that the end bit "
Utter myth. The Wall defined the boundary of the Empire (as do his other walls across the Netherlands and Germany, and North Africa). The Brigantes kingdom stretched north and sout of the Wall
Aye.
I think there was more to it than that. It was more likely a problem of expansion, and the costs involved.
@@janetboles3424yeah the Roman Empire travelled the length of Europe from Rome to the edges of the then known world. Only then when they got to Britannia Major, started worrying about how much it was costing them to keep all of that garrisoned for the next 400-ish years.
Yet just north of Hadrian's Wall, at the Leadhills in the west, the natives had been mining gold silver and lead, only a day or two's ride away.
Over in the east, near the Forth Estuary, the Celts had been turning out high quality weapons grade carbon steel for centuries before the Romans arrived on the scene.
The iron the Romans were using eg for making armour, weapons, horse shoes, and construction nails, was being mined and worked in the south, to be carted up to Caledonia.
Only it now seems to have been abandoned there, when at some point the 'Pictish' natives proved less than impressed by the notion of gaining Roman citizenship than were their southern counterparts.
Scotland? Scots? Neither existed back then pal.
Complimenti per la qualità del video, per il contenuto e l’esposizione !
Sound is oddly muffled.
Hadrian's Wall, like everything Hadrian did--Pantheon, elevation of Hellenic culture--is fantastic.
If you visit, be sure to visit the nearby beautiful Neolithic Castlerigg stone circle.
Thank-you for your guided tours, Dr. MacIntosh! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻I find it fascinating that both the Denarii/Sesterces are in the same bank vault strong room as their standards and eagles. /// Roman Baths, the great equalizer. All walks of life were allowed to bathe there. 🛀🏻🧼🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧
Visited Housteads and walked on the wall. Amazing history and so beautiful.
This was in May 2023
Love to visit the wall
Sound is muffled
Thought that, sounds like the lav was under his coat.
The lav? I don't know why but this made me chuckle. 😂
@@leddielive The mic.
that's because it was obviously very windy that day (you can see it in the vegetation), and if they didn't hide the lav mic under his coat, the sound wouldv'e been a lot more terrible, with wind noise that's impossible to edit out
Wind Noise issues for Sure.
With No Wind protection on Mic. at all, It would have sounded awful without it..!
Hence a little muffled but not too hard to hear.
Cheers All.
P.s. I have been up there Twice and both Days the wind was Bracing..! To say the Least..!!
This is a very good documentary. Impressed!
Tristan seems like a great guy and a great host.
If a bit boring.
@@heenanyou hes a historian 😃
Bros hand gestures are driving me wild
@@jamesboydriver than dont watch..
I really appreciate how psyched the lady in the pink tank top is about all this. The manifestation of, "if your job is doing what you love, you'll never work a day in your life."
Weather was mentioned a few times but it is worth remembering it was upto 5deg warmer back then.
Can you imagine what some poor soldier from the middle east was thinking when he found himself in northern England?
Whats it like up there Centurion ? Pack plenty of Togas, and wooly long Johns son
Well you do not have any complaints from any of the illegal imagrant s they come from same place
Probably.. Like most soldiers they probably wish they were back home. Roman troops seemed to do a lot of marching with extreme heavy gear, they did a lot of daily work for meager rations, delt with all kinds of fighting, delt with pictish warriors who fought mostly nude. The lower troop did all the dirty work while the civilians, Politicans, and officers and officials stayed near safe areas. Sure the scenery was likely nice.. but you see enough areas you see most areas. Weather sucks, sleep sucks.
They likely had a saying similar to the US Army.. " Embrace the Suck "
I promise you they did fine, just like the millions of Mexicans who illegally cross in to the United States to live in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
Mostly British Roman's guard the wall
Building a wall to protect your empire . Sounds like a legit strategy for 2024 as well !!!
The Romans tried to secure the land beyond Hadrian's Wall by marching north some 100 miles and establishing the Antonine Wall. This meant a pacified, safe southern Scotland and the Romans almost abandoned Hadrian's Wall, but not in its entirety. It wasn't to last. Rome could hang on to the Antonine Wall and after Emperor Pius' death, abandoned the wall and returned to Hadrian's wall.
Hadrian's Wall then confronted its greatest test just twenty years after its recommissioning. Around 181 A.D. Caledonian and Pict warriors launched a massive raid upon Hadrian's Wall. Historical sources are scant but evidently the native warriors were able to inflict much damage and even breach the wall. The Roman governor may have been killed.
It was almost the perfect time for the Scots and Picts. The Roman Empire was in deep trouble on its Danube frontiers. The Parthian War lasted five years and returning legionaries brought back a devastating plague which ravaged the empire. It scoured the ranks of the Roman Army too. Throughout the 170s emperor Marcus Aurelius was hard pressed to repel numerous barbarian coalitions and tribes raiding across the Danube River in great strength. Roman manpower was scarce in the face of the early plague and heavy war casualties against the Parthians and the Germanic Marcomanni, Quadi, Iazyges, Sarmatians, Chatti, Chauci, Bructali, and other tribes.
We can possibly assume that at this time, Britain's Roman garrisons may have been understrength. There had been peace for twenty years since the abandonment of the Antonine Wall. The sudden attacks on Hadrian's Wall must have taken the Romans completely by surprise. But in the end the Caledonian and Pictish invaders were either repelled or they left on their own accord. It was the start of rough times in Britain until a new emperor, Septimus Severus, in 191 AD entered Britain with a force of six legions intending to square the Caledonian and Pict problem in Scotland once and for all. History records that after particularly savage, brutal, and genocidal warfare which cost the Romans at least the equivalent of two legions; some say four, Severus was able achieve peace in Britain for the next eighty years.
Wasn't no Scots in Scotland till 5 century my friend timelines of all cultures very important to learn facts they were brothonic peoples that wall split groups up an to divide common folk
Francis is amazing, a real treasure!
Thank you for sharing this informative video
An extraordinary and very well-done video👏
Except for the terrible audio.
Wow, what a bunch of moaners. Sound is muffled, gesticulating too much, thumbnails are tacky. I nearly didn't watch it because of the negativity, glad I did though, enjoyable and educational.
Love the wall, the Scots must have been scary. Reckon microlhone may be under jacket? Definitely hard to hear at times. Thank you for making.❤
It was and has NEVER been a boundary between England and Scotland! The Brigantes lived BOTH sides of the Wall.
The Scots still are scary. The further North you head, the tougher the people you will encounter. Hard times and climatically hard places beget hard folk.
@@colinearnshaw7725Been a Northumberland born Canadian I get tired of explaining this
@@steveforster9764 Yeah, Geordie here and it's like banging your head against a brick wall isn't it?
It's a mixture of the ignorance of the southern English and the denial of the middle belt Scots.
It's probably windy there, interfering with the sound quality.
1:05:50 i like this female, she is very knowledgeable, a Good educator.
Thank you ma'am for the input you shared in this video.
Excellent doco.
Great documentary
really enjoyed this
Wow, nice video. And just in time as I recently have started playing "Hadrian's Wall" the board game. It is nice to know some history behind it. :)
1:26:52
If you can put in fresh water.. you dont need to drain or plug the pools. You add new water which over fills the pools, the old water is Essentially rinsed out by new input. The water as it overflows the pool would rinse the floors.
This is what i think happened in the bath house. Maybe on a nightly or bi-nightly basis, or something, somewhat frequently. You have to change the pool waters and rinse the floors, what better more efficient way then just overfilling maybe overnight when no one is in the bath house and you can use a stiff brush on the floors with the water for a better clean. . You got soldiers of all ranks, an high profile people going in the bath house so you got to have some way to attemp to keep it clean somehow.
Excellent documentry
Great doc.
It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about the Hadrian stones Wall in North Britain 🇬🇧 built 2000 years ago .video introduced by an amazing ( History Hit) channel.
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The Romans were amazing soldiers and engineers. Greatest empire ever.
Antonine wall was the original but seems to be more forgotten than hadrians wall
Strange not one word spoken of the first wall
Thanks
I understand the Channel is Anglophone, but you should also do videos about Trajano, Publio Excipion, after Posteguillo Novels on the Hispanic world the interest for those has increase exponentially.
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Mysteries still abound.
could the chalet style barracks be a response to deforestation in the area? You'd need shorter lengths of timber to go across the width a chalet style building (about 5m). Whereas to go across the width of an old style barrack block would take much longer trunks (about 12m).
Another reason for building courtyard style buildings is because they had to rely on either sunlight or torches for light so during the day the sun would light The Rooms.
Very interesting
Excited for this one!
Would love to walk it one day
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I walked this track about 8 years ago or so and only now watching the history of it 😂
There was one movie where a doctor in the Early 1900s was riding a car to deliver a baby and he was used to riding to house calls on a horse. He made the point that he thought it was warmer on top of his horse than in the car.
I'm sure having three horses is a good amount of body heat. It might not be a lot, but it might take the edge off a slight chill in the fall and spring.
Trajan started as a soldier in a period where the focus was fortifying the walls on the frontier. It's what he did for years. When he became Emperor he huegly increases governors independence and agency.
So Trajan could go alone the walls making sure they were up to standard. He only attacked Dacia because the leader of the Dacians didn't keep up his end of an earlier deal, the Dacian leader made forts on the wrong border, facing the wrong way.
Trajan after defeating him even gave him a second chance to do as he had earlier agreed but no, 2nd war and same result, Roman victory. So a vacuum was left in Dacia (full of gold) for Trajan to fill.
Then a golden opportunity arose where the Parthians had to go east to deal with their Eastern neighbour in a war, Trajan easily took a bunch of land off them.
Hadrian was not Trajan's chosen heir, Trajan's wife chose him. Hadrian wasn't smart or realistic to give up the lands Trajan took, Rome could have kept them and even kept expanding. Stalling inevitably causes Rome's neighbours to unite against prosperous Rome.
The main issue I have with the Roman's is that they didn't keep expanding after Augustus until situations forced Trajan's hand, then Hadrian gave it up, dooming Rome to civil war, at least until Aurelion, but then he got murdered.
As a Canadian i find it kinda quaint in what they consider a vast expanse, i would feel hemmed in... so much history packed into such a tiny space though
My second favorite wall.
And the first?
....and your first is, don't tell me, Berlin!
You're just so predictable. 😂
@@leddielive Berlin is perhaps last on my list.
Vividly remember feeling elated on the early November day in 1989 when it came down, overwhelmed by the jubilation & the world-altering of it all. Living in Belgium at the time, the energy was palpable even in the streets of Brussels.
My favorite may be predictable, but less so than Berlin - the Theodosian Walls. Solid.
Thank you for asking, @@thomasbell7033!
First on my list has got to be *The Theodosian Walls* (part of the Walls of Constantinople/Istanbul).
Those are a couple of badass walls. *Did their job spectacularly for a whole MILLENNIUM.*
As far as defensive walls go, I'm a big fan of these.
Thank you for asking, @@thomasbell7033!
First on my list - The Theodosian Walls (part of the Walls of Constantinople/Istanbul).
Those are a couple of bad*ss walls. Did their job spectacularly for *an entire millennium.*
As far as defensive walls go, I'm a big fan.
Id like to hear more about the wall after the romans
fell into disuse.
Did you guys visit the spot where John Snow was stationed? Is it still there?
It was warmer during the Roman occupation than it is today so may not have been too bad during the summer time
yes the officers had better accommodations with a office as they usually stayed longer periods of time while the soldiers had more movement, but on their terms sometimes a inn for a beer :)
Would recommend also using the metric system or having some kind of text showing the different measures so us viewers who arent as versed with feets.
Google is your friend
@@jonnphoenix Sure but considering how widely the metric system is used providing such a function would be kinda nice. Quite a few documents already show the measures in more than just in feets or just in meters.
Couldn't agree more.Most of the world do not understand the antiquated Imperial system.
Feet....just picture a very large foot 😅
Should not have to turn to Google to understand measurements that are used only in the US The metric system is the only system science uses.
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Built to contain.... this wall wasn't built due to the defeat it was built out of fear .... interesting documentary
You're thinking of the wall the Romans built around Dacia, this wall was built after the Romans had already conquered Caledonia and decided there was nothing worth having
@Sagittbrit Caledonia is the central region of Scotland. There is no evidence of them entering it and staying there marching camps go around there was no defeat of northern people ( picts )
Must have remastered sound, sounds great to me. I live in Newcastle upon Tyne and there's chunks of Hadrian's Wall along the West Road. Visited Housesteads as kid in the '90's with school. In truth the wall was built to stop the mad north folk lobbing haggis at the Geordies lol
44:00: that's why we call them from South Shields Sand Dancers from the Roman use of foreigners, plus this reduces the chance of the Roman exchange students trying to help their own people still being bribed, bludgeoned or oppressed into servitude.
Not sure if you mentioned why many soldiers from all over the empire but wasn't that related to the soldier getting his citizenship after so many years of service? Re Corstopitum (Corbridge) no mention of the bath house that the local 'farmer/landowner' having it bulldozed back in 1972 when the site of the A69 would be planned THAT day! Long memory!
It's was cool seeing it in Assassin's Creed valhalla by the way 👍
Does this sound really muffled to anyone else?
Sounds like his lav mic is under his jacket, probably an effort to minimize wind noise. It's quite a windy spot
27:17 when he's not wearing the jacket, the audio is considerably better
Tristan great documentary,but i think it has been proven that the wall was 20 feet high and 10 feet wide.which would have allowed soldiers to patrol it.
I can only image if these two suddenly finding themselves 2000 years ago in this fort , and trying to explain that they are from the future. 18:22
Tristan Hughes’s audio is terrible. It’s so muffled it’s often hard to understand him.
I'd rather be stationed at Hadrian's Wall than on the Rhine.
That whole Teutoburg Forest thing.
This becomes much more intelligible if you use an equalizer plugin, and boost 2000 Hz and 4000 Hz bands to max...
Room within a room is for acoustics reasons. They could be loud in there own room of the berricks
34:08
Thats Impressive and its a suprise to me how near Medieval it looks.
Great stuff guys i went there once years ago take care Sam Moore 😊
Some positional freedom for large sites, yes, but there exists on the wall a small tower half-way down [or up] a small dip. It could have been dominated from above on either side of the dip yet not offer a level entrance or exit to the wall itself, for military purposes [it would have been too remote for civilian use]. Like most armies, bureaucracy and daft regulations were intrinsic to daily life.
Whats with the presentors hand gestures, drove me absolutely mad
Must have been absolutely awesome in it’s heyday. BTW, Hadrian actually had other walls, apparently his Semi in Londinium had 4 walls too!
Hadrian had the right idea, we need another big wall built to keep the SNP isolated and one across the centre of the English Channel to keep all those French inflatables out!
Did all those featured on this piece have a couple of doses of the “Hand and Arm Waving Drug” before filming?
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why is the audio so indistinct..sounds like it was recorded badly..yet the music is clear...muddy sounding..poor treble response
that's because it was obviously very windy that day (you can see it in the vegetation), and if they didn't hide the lav mic under his coat, the sound wouldv'e been a lot more terrible, with wind noise that's impossible to edit out
When?
1:16:45 disappointed they didn't pan to give us a view of the room.
Had the Romans figured out automatic weapons, humans would now be living on Mars.
The Antonine Wall says hello
The Gask Ridge says hello
Is the microphone in your coat pocket with all that other stuff you're always carrying around?
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Turf, a pallisade and a couple of deep ditches sounds fine to me ...
Audio is scuffed
The amount of ad breaks is ridiculous. I get it, they are posting a free video for us to enjoy, and I greatly appreciate that. However, the constant pop up ads mid-sentence and every few minutes are so frustrating and distracting.
adblockers still work
@@rhetorical1488 which do you recommend? Do they work on mobile?
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RIP to his mic that sounds terrible
that's because it was obviously very windy that day (you can see it in the vegetation), and if they didn't hide the lav mic under his coat, the sound wouldv'e been a lot more terrible, with wind noise that's impossible to edit out
31:15 Counter-mobility seems the more reasonable answer. Why spend so much on a simple marker?
I think, wooden tours were made to clear the near land of the forest to see the attack
What if the wall was to stop everybody escaping into Scotland from the Romans?
What if it was use to divide common people's from uniting an over throwning lots of evidence northern Britain was always the strong hold of these islands only if brigantines women queen didn't sell her husband out all account high kings of UK was in Eire Spain Germany all over leading to pythains of Anatolia Celts an all miner farmers homeland dna backs this up hill top buliders
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