EH Hadrian\'s Wall map \'reviewed\'

[mcbishop]

In the Daily Telegraph, so not a real academic review, but at least raising its public profile a bit.

Even armed with An Archaeological Map of Hadrian's Wall by English Heritage, the most detailed guide published yet, I find it hard to get my bearings. There is the scar of an old trench and the outline of a fort. But why did the Romans build the wall there? Why not a hundred yards to the south, where the ground is higher? And how would they have got supplies to the soldiers manning the wall in winter, when the area must have been completely snowbound?

Actually, some rather good questions in there ;-) )

Mike Bishop