Hadrian's Wall was built by order of the Emperor Hadrian around his
visit to Britain in AD 122. Over the next six years professional soldiers, legionaries,
built a wall 80 Roman miles long (117km or 73 modern miles), from Wallsend-on-Tyne in the east to
Bowness-on-Solway in the west. A Roman biographer of Hadrian states that the Wall was built "to
separate the Romans from the Barbarians." For hundreds of years this wall served as a border between
England and Scotland. Today much of the wall lies in ruin, but many stretches of wall still exist.
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