2:21 Hadrian's wall wasn't an enigma. The Romans already did it in Germania with the "limes" - a literal wall with gates, guardhouses, and garrisons that delineated the maximum limit of the empire - starting in AD 83, something like a century before Hadrian came to power. The remains of the limes still exist in the form of earthworks. The only thing that makes Hadrian's wall different is that it was entirely constructed of stone.
Two points, Hadrian's Wall was built partially in turf as it went further West and it was built in 122 AD, thirty nine years after the Limes in Germania.
I loe getting lost in thought about all the adventures and.happenimgs that must have gone on at the Wall so long ago. All the patrols, attacks, the seemingly boring logistics behind supplying the forts, etc.
In the early decade after its constructiin it was probably more lively with attacks from northern tribes still happening often, but after the first decade i think life became much more settled. I think that getting guard duty in the northern ass-end of the known world mist have been like a punishment for any soldier of the empire. Very cold weather, boring days of sitting on a wall watching sheep go by and also no cultural challenges because most people that lived there were farmers. So yeah, i think the reality is that it was very boring to be stationed there...
Very good presentation, Dan. When you commented about the phallus being the work of a mason, I remembered something I read long ago - all Roman Legionaries are masons. Their regular day jobs including the building of all the edifices that we see today.
I’m sure that the Barbarians were allowed through with their livestock - as long as they paid a toll fee. The Romans were all about money and did trade with anyone. The narrow gate would have allowed for better counting of the people and livestock in order to assess the toll. (And search for arms, no doubt.)
the answer to how they wiped themselves is.. there were two servants on either end of the bench, that is seen with the large flat worn stones they stood on,, and above then at waist level was the ledge for the water pitchure.. these attendants poured water over their back side to allow the attendees to hand wipe themselves with the water provided.. as seen at 26:11 time stamp...
Interesting. This does make more sense than the stick and lufa method. I mean who in their right mind would want to use a shit stick that many people have used? Romans had very advanced aquatic engineering so it makes more sense that they just washed immediately. In old world Europe they were using a separate toilet bowl called a bidet that squirted water vertically to wash the private parts and also the hand method. Maybe we are the barbarians in the modern world for using paper instead of washing right away? Interesting toilet conversation. :)
To build the first 50 meters today would take 200+ years of permitting, reviews, meetings, environmental reviews..............................what has happened to us?
Far better to rush in on the command of a despot without a second or even a first thought and without regard to the consequences I guess... We've learned, that's what has happened to us.
What happened? No imposing enemy. If the Scots started to get rowdy, you'd better believe the wall would be reinstated in a hurry. Just look at Berlin.
The video is literally a 40 minute description of how the wall was built and operated through strict administrative processes and organisation. Maybe a bit of bureaucracy is what separates us from the barbarians...
Perceived "Savagery" from "Civilisation". I think the wall symbolised that Rome lacked the ability to truly conquer the 'killing-grounds' of the far North. The domain of the Highlander.
As an American in the south I to have reenacted sleeping on many civil war battlefields. I can very much relate. However forts that old must have been an amazing experience.
@@thomasnelson7869 It was and still is, now summer is here i go sit by the wall as it is still light and warm in late evening and the people have all gone home, a great place to sit think and relax, a place that hasn't really changed.
만리장성 같다. ㅎㅎ 1882 출간된 Asiatic History 와 한국역사 싸이트 동북아넷에 의하면 로마는 진나라로 로마제국이 China. China는 진나라에서 유래되었기 때문 진나라가 세운 성이 만리장성인데 로마제국이 진나라이니 만리장성은 로마제국이 세운 셈. 그리고 Hadrian's Wall을 보니 시기는 좀 다르지만 로마제국 즉 차이나가 세운 만리장성을 연상케 하네 ㅎㅎ
Strange this video should pop up in my recommended list when I'm just a few miles down the road from Hadrian's Wall... It's almost like Google is spying on me....
Basically all mountains and hills in Brittain are made of limestone. A big part of the eastern and central wall was made of limestone sourced from local quarries and the east part was made from sandstone. When such a large project was commissioned, the empire also sent a large number of slaves to quarry and carry the stones to the construction site. For Many slaves a megaproject like this was a death sentence. The legions only built the wall they did not do most of the manual labour, but they had their own army of slaves for the menial tasks. For such large projects specialised stone mason legions were brought from all over the empire while other legions would have manned a wooden temp wall built just north of the construction sites.
Fantastic. My genealogy is anglo-Saxon, Roman, north man, and Welsh, very common English mutt. England was the United States of its day. A melting pot.
North England is well known for coal . Didn't the Romans ever discoveries its uses .. ? They discovered mostly everything else Inc how to make concrete .. floor heating , drains , armour etc
Much of the stone used in the construction of Hadrian's Wall was reused to build farms, churches, etc. You can blame the people of the middle ages for the lack of archaeological remains.
They only reconstructed one of the fort gates, not the whole fort. And we do know how the gates would look like because of how standardised roman forts were all over Europe. The shape of the gate we also know from ancient reliefs and mural art left by the romans themselves. I have very high respect for reconstruction archaologists because they have to do a ton of research and also learn construction techniques used in ancient times.
Interesting co-incidence, of timing, between the fall of the Roman Empire, in this part of the Empire, and the conversion from pagan religion, to Christianity. Is it purely co-incidence?
Both ! The Romans only stayed about 8 yrs after Antonine wall was completed. Local joke is that the Romans sold their swords at the barras !!!!! ( for those not from central Scotland, that's a local market in Glasgow, just a few miles south of the wall)
I do not believe in Saxons as a large group in England. I even think the name England is incorrect. Britain however is probably exactly the correct name.
This was interesting. I don't know why the carved pen** on the wall can't just be grafitti. Why does it have to be a symbol of magic? Why couldn't a few soldiers who regularly spent time at that spot have gotten bored and thought carving that was amusing? Ppl do it all the time. Why shouldn't they?
Just think how far we've come in 2000 years. From wiping your backside by hand - to pinecone and sponges on twigs - to toilet paper - to bidets. Ain't civilization grand?
In ENGLAND being left-handed wasn't a good thing and there was many superstitions like the devil had control over you or you we're in league with the Devil.And the teachers would virtually torture you to become right handed by whacking you with there wooden ruler every time you tried to write left-handed.And as per usual we can blame the crazy religious nutjobs for it and i think that came down from the POPE himself..
@@johnnyseagull29 antonnie was built by him when he reach the north by his builders then abandoned back to hardrains wall the Romans with all they mighty power could not conquer the northern half of Britain
Who cares it's a symbol of roman oppression I'd destroy it and do you want a security detail on a single tree 24/7 ?? Not the brightest are you?? Are you a yank by any chance
preserve it? its nearly 2 thousand years old, whats left of it is preserved the bricks were re-used centuries ago to build towns and churches there is churches in England that are 1300 years old that were built from bricks from these Roman forts folk werent bothered about preserving stuff back in them days
So are you a one of the best historians in the world then because you must be to say something like that.But i reckon DAN SNOW as forgotten more about history than you know so why did you watch this video if you hate him so much?? 🙄
2:21 Hadrian's wall wasn't an enigma. The Romans already did it in Germania with the "limes" - a literal wall with gates, guardhouses, and garrisons that delineated the maximum limit of the empire - starting in AD 83, something like a century before Hadrian came to power. The remains of the limes still exist in the form of earthworks. The only thing that makes Hadrian's wall different is that it was entirely constructed of stone.
Two points, Hadrian's Wall was built partially in turf as it went further West and it was built in 122 AD, thirty nine years after the Limes in Germania.
It was an enigma BECAUSE it was made of stone. You literally contradicted yourself and awnsered your own question at the same time. Are you stupid? 😂
They keep putting out Handrians wall videos and I love it
Hiking this over 5 days (c. 20 miles per day) was a great experience. And I discovered great b&bs along the way.
so cool!!
Great video about history and the wall. Awesome
This is great episode. Dan is a good presenter.
Yes, he is ..wonderful. Great voice for narration.
I really enjoyed this. thanks to the whole team
I loe getting lost in thought about all the adventures and.happenimgs that must have gone on at the Wall so long ago. All the patrols, attacks, the seemingly boring logistics behind supplying the forts, etc.
I pictured in my mind the poor shepard trying to convince the guards to let his flock pass through lol (screaming up and the guards screaming down 😅)
In the early decade after its constructiin it was probably more lively with attacks from northern tribes still happening often, but after the first decade i think life became much more settled.
I think that getting guard duty in the northern ass-end of the known world mist have been like a punishment for any soldier of the empire. Very cold weather, boring days of sitting on a wall watching sheep go by and also no cultural challenges because most people that lived there were farmers.
So yeah, i think the reality is that it was very boring to be stationed there...
Very good presentation, Dan. When you commented about the phallus being the work of a mason, I remembered something I read long ago - all Roman Legionaries are masons. Their regular day jobs including the building of all the edifices that we see today.
Another giant video, Dan ! Heartly salutes from the Limeswall :)
That was really freaking good!!!! The best doc on hadrians wall I've seen so far
7:28 "Do you find it... wisible... when I say the name...: 'Biggus'.... 'Dickus'...??"
yeah what a carry on that was , aye ! 😎
I’m sure that the Barbarians were allowed through with their livestock - as long as they paid a toll fee. The Romans were all about money and did trade with anyone. The narrow gate would have allowed for better counting of the people and livestock in order to assess the toll. (And search for arms, no doubt.)
And christianity was forced farming religion, cut all trees
"That is the largest phallus in Roman Britain". Alright, it's all I needed to know, now I can die happy
Ha,lol
Crikey.
I would guess it's the phallus on Barcombe Hill.
Rip robin hood tree 🙏
I still in disbelief they did that
Did they find out who did it?
@@TamaraJohnBlue2 men are in court at the moment.
Should go to jail, for a long time........ Bet they dont
@@TamaraJohnBlueSome 16yo & older man
Excellent piece of film. A place I will be walking this autumn!
the answer to how they wiped themselves is.. there were two servants on either end of the bench, that is seen with the large flat worn stones they stood on,, and above then at waist level was the ledge for the water pitchure.. these attendants poured water over their back side to allow the attendees to hand wipe themselves with the water provided.. as seen at 26:11 time stamp...
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i use tabo , in philipines they still use the hand and water clean method.
Interesting. This does make more sense than the stick and lufa method. I mean who in their right mind would want to use a shit stick that many people have used?
Romans had very advanced aquatic engineering so it makes more sense that they just washed immediately.
In old world Europe they were using a separate toilet bowl called a bidet that squirted water vertically to wash the private parts and also the hand method.
Maybe we are the barbarians in the modern world for using paper instead of washing right away?
Interesting toilet conversation. :)
good video thanks
Never stop learning.🤙
Absolutely, don’t stop
To build the first 50 meters today would take 200+ years of permitting, reviews, meetings, environmental reviews..............................what has happened to us?
You forgot heath 'n' safety. Working at hight regs.
Far better to rush in on the command of a despot without a second or even a first thought and without regard to the consequences I guess...
We've learned, that's what has happened to us.
We've gone backwards
What happened? No imposing enemy. If the Scots started to get rowdy, you'd better believe the wall would be reinstated in a hurry.
Just look at Berlin.
The video is literally a 40 minute description of how the wall was built and operated through strict administrative processes and organisation. Maybe a bit of bureaucracy is what separates us from the barbarians...
I live here!
You live in a beautiful place. Congrats
That's awesome!
Sorry to hear that..
Related to John Snow. Now I am really impressed.
Perceived "Savagery" from "Civilisation". I think the wall symbolised that Rome lacked the ability to truly conquer the 'killing-grounds' of the far North. The domain of the Highlander.
Amazing, so cool. So, how tall was it?
Roman Bath House = American Pizza. Got it.
Good job
I live just North of the wall and spent many nights sleeping in the forts in Roman kit as a re enactor.
As an American in the south I to have reenacted sleeping on many civil war battlefields. I can very much relate. However forts that old must have been an amazing experience.
@@thomasnelson7869 It was and still is, now summer is here i go sit by the wall as it is still light and warm in late evening and the people have all gone home,
a great place to sit think and relax, a place that hasn't really changed.
@@TheArtist8077simply amazing
There was a wall in Scotland too, the Antonine wall, which also has only earthworks left.
Forts not castles Dan.
But an excellent production.
Simon Elliot is a font of knowledge of Romano Britain.
Tanks from Italy . Amazing episode.
Why we're so many ROMAN SOLDIERS GAY???
2:49
만리장성 같다. ㅎㅎ
1882 출간된 Asiatic History 와 한국역사 싸이트 동북아넷에 의하면 로마는 진나라로 로마제국이 China. China는 진나라에서 유래되었기 때문
진나라가 세운 성이 만리장성인데 로마제국이 진나라이니 만리장성은 로마제국이 세운 셈.
그리고 Hadrian's Wall을 보니 시기는 좀 다르지만 로마제국 즉 차이나가 세운 만리장성을 연상케 하네 ㅎㅎ
Let's play StarCraft :D
I believe this comment must have really lost something in translation.
I'm sure it made sense before Google got involved.
Strange this video should pop up in my recommended list when I'm just a few miles down the road from Hadrian's Wall... It's almost like Google is spying on me....
Roman soldiers probably thought I didn't sign up for this. Where did they get so much stones from?
Obviously from the Roman stone gods..
Basically all mountains and hills in Brittain are made of limestone. A big part of the eastern and central wall was made of limestone sourced from local quarries and the east part was made from sandstone.
When such a large project was commissioned, the empire also sent a large number of slaves to quarry and carry the stones to the construction site. For Many slaves a megaproject like this was a death sentence.
The legions only built the wall they did not do most of the manual labour, but they had their own army of slaves for the menial tasks.
For such large projects specialised stone mason legions were brought from all over the empire while other legions would have manned a wooden temp wall built just north of the construction sites.
Fantastic. My genealogy is anglo-Saxon, Roman, north man, and Welsh, very common English mutt. England was the United States of its day. A melting pot.
An unbiased view from m’lord
North England is well known for coal .
Didn't the Romans ever discoveries its uses .. ?
They discovered mostly everything else Inc how to make concrete .. floor heating , drains , armour etc
"what happened when roman rule in britain came to an end? did these walls come down?"
bro we can see the wall next to you still standing
Much of the stone used in the construction of Hadrian's Wall was reused to build farms, churches, etc. You can blame the people of the middle ages for the lack of archaeological remains.
Dan your audio is so bad around the 15:00 min mark...
I find it hard to say reconstructed at Arbeia when the full fort isn't reconstructed and we don't have a physical scale to connect to.
They only reconstructed one of the fort gates, not the whole fort.
And we do know how the gates would look like because of how standardised roman forts were all over Europe. The shape of the gate we also know from ancient reliefs and mural art left by the romans themselves.
I have very high respect for reconstruction archaologists because they have to do a ton of research and also learn construction techniques used in ancient times.
Another Hadrian wall video 🙄 whats that now the 37th video
Why are so many people from around the world fascinated with Hadrian’s wall?
For the same reasons people around the world are fascinated with any historical sites from all time periods?
I just try to improve my English ,I need ,but it's interesting too ,thanks 😂
Interesting co-incidence, of timing, between the fall of the Roman Empire, in this part of the Empire, and the conversion from pagan religion, to Christianity.
Is it purely co-incidence?
The thing is, its actually 600 million years old.
Oh those nasty little barbarians wearing their kilts and fighting like demons.
Do you mean north of the Antonine wall?
Both ! The Romans only stayed about 8 yrs after Antonine wall was completed. Local joke is that the Romans sold their swords at the barras !!!!! ( for those not from central Scotland, that's a local market in Glasgow, just a few miles south of the wall)
Don't ask him questions like that he's absolutely clueless that's why he didn't reply and tried to look intelligent@@johnnyseagull29
I've been there.
Bet, all those Calvary men, broke their own horses
I do not believe in Saxons as a large group in England. I even think the name England is incorrect. Britain however is probably exactly the correct name.
Did he say, "crikey"!
Admit it , They feared our people !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was interesting. I don't know why the carved pen** on the wall can't just be grafitti. Why does it have to be a symbol of magic? Why couldn't a few soldiers who regularly spent time at that spot have gotten bored and thought carving that was amusing? Ppl do it all the time. Why shouldn't they?
They explained it quite well in the video
Britain must have had something more than territory worth the investment to protect.
Why is the tour guide an American with a lip full of tobacco chaw? ( I am American )
Because he's probably a roman professor from the nearest UNIVERSITY
The solider and the former slave at Arbeia, lets just get real, they were partners.
8:20 thats no good luck charm mate that’s a dick 😂 cools story tho.
Kept the legion busy unlike youth of this age lazy
Exactly
Just think how far we've come in 2000 years. From wiping your backside by hand - to pinecone and sponges on twigs - to toilet paper - to bidets. Ain't civilization grand?
Some people still wipe there ass by ✋
What if the wall was to keep people in, and not to reinforce the fighting numbers of the Picts?
"Barbarians".......... Oh, you are referring to the Scottish Highlanders.
No wonder most people are right handed.
In ENGLAND being left-handed wasn't a good thing and there was many superstitions like the devil had control over you or you we're in league with the Devil.And the teachers would virtually torture you to become right handed by whacking you with there wooden ruler every time you tried to write left-handed.And as per usual we can blame the crazy religious nutjobs for it and i think that came down from the POPE himself..
:-You know celts?
:- Just know barbarians
Built to keep out the legendary Scottish warriors, the Picts, ifentifiable by the distinctive blue body art and ferocity in combat
I doubt the wall was built to keep the savages out..
Think I will send this video to President Trump
An Icon of Roman surrender!
Hardrains wall was built to keep roman Britain from the northern tribes in the north which we call Scotland now how do you no they were barbarians
I belive you are thinking of the Antonine wall.
@@johnnyseagull29 antonnie was built by him when he reach the north by his builders then abandoned back to hardrains wall the Romans with all they mighty power could not conquer the northern half of Britain
@@edwardwinder7877 yes, I know.
How did you work that one out?? Very clever i doubt anybody knew that..
Over use of music as usual
Wouldn't ROME separate Romans from "barbarians". Stay home, damn
The wall wasn't even tall it couldn't keep anyone out
Exactly that's why I always say it couldn't of been built to keep the savages out but on some parts of the wall it is built over long drops
They said 4 meters in the video
He looks like the Jew Michael Bolton
Well the Brits didn't do a very good job of preserving it over the years and cannot even protect a tree.
Who cares it's a symbol of roman oppression I'd destroy it and do you want a security detail on a single tree 24/7 ?? Not the brightest are you?? Are you a yank by any chance
preserve it?
its nearly 2 thousand years old, whats left of it is preserved
the bricks were re-used centuries ago to build towns and churches
there is churches in England that are 1300 years old that were built from bricks from these Roman forts
folk werent bothered about preserving stuff back in them days
@@Michael-fl1tm Says the AMERICAN 😂😂😂
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13🇺🇸 yep, you could have been a detective.
I cannot stand Dan Snow. He is the ultimate talking head who must read from a script, because he knows nothing about actual history.
That’s rather nasty… how about keeping unexplained emotions to yourself?
Get some sleep...yeesh
Seriously…good grief. Are you based in facts.
So are you a one of the best historians in the world then because you must be to say something like that.But i reckon DAN SNOW as forgotten more about history than you know so why did you watch this video if you hate him so much?? 🙄
Long live rome
Didn't China do this first??
Who's talking about CHINA??😊
Started good. But Im so bored
I just cant sit and listen to an American tell me about the history of my country…just doesn’t sit right with me 🥱