![]() The building of Hadrian’s Wall probably began that year, and took at least six years to complete. Hadrian came to Britain in AD 122 and, according to a biography written 200 years later, ‘put many things to right and was the first to build a wall 80 miles long from sea to sea to separate the barbarians from the Romans’. The forts here were linked by a road, now known as the Stanegate, between Corbridge and Carlisle. By about AD 100 the northernmost army units in Britain lay along the Tyne–Solway isthmus. Permanent conquest of Britain began in AD 43.
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