The Roman Wall: A Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive Account of the Barrier of the Lower Isthmus, Extending From the Tyne to the Solway, ... Numerous Personal Surveys (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The famous Roman Wall, which, in former times, protected southern Britain from the ravages of the northern tribes, exhibits, at this day, remains more entire, and forms a subject of study more interesting than is generally supposed.

Two authors of great learning have treated of this renowned structure - Horsley, in the Britannia Romana, and Hodgson, in the last volume of his His tory of Northumberland. Both are treatises of considerable size, and both are, to a certain extent, rare. The Britannia Romana, moreover, describes the Wall, not as it is, but as it was more than a century ago. Hodgson's work is of recent date, and forms a valuable storehouse of nearly all that is known upon the subject. The mind, however, of that amiable man and zealous antiquary was, at the time of its preparation, bending-under the weight of his ill-re quited labours, and he has failed to present his ample materials to the reader in that condensed and well arranged form which distinguishes his previous vol umes, and without which a book on antiquities will not arrest the attention of the general reader.

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