Author: John Collingwood BrucePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The hand-book to the Roman wall
Author: John Collingwood BrucePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Hand-book to the Roman Wall
Author: John Collingwood BrucePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The hand-book to the Roman wall
Author: John Collingwood BrucePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hadrian's Wall (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Handbook to the Roman Wall
Author: John Collingwood BrucePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Handbook to the Roman Wall
Author: John Collingwood BrucePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Hadrian's Wall is one of the best known Roman monuments in Britain. It was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987. The Emperor Hadrian ordered its construction in AD 122 and for nearly three centuries it was the north-west frontier of the Roman empire. Hadrian's Wall has been visited, written about, surveyed and excavated for over four centuries. In 1851, the great nineteenth century authority on Hadrian's Wall, John Collingwood Bruce, published The Roman Wall, followed by an abridged edition in 1863. The Handbook to the Roman Wallhas subsequently been revised on several occasions. This, the fourteenth edition, has been completely re-written by David Breeze, though acknowledging the style of earlier editions. This authoritative account will be of value to all interested in Hadrian's Wall.
Hadrian's Wall
Author: David J. BreezeHadrian's Wall
Author: Adrian GoldsworthyPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 154164445X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a definitive history of Hadrian's Wall Stretching eighty miles from coast to coast across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the largest Roman artifact known today. It is commonly viewed as a defiant barrier, the end of the empire, a place where civilization stopped and barbarism began. In fact, the massive structure remains shrouded in mystery. Was the wall intended to keep out the Picts, who inhabited the North? Or was it merely a symbol of Roman power and wealth? What was life like for soldiers stationed along its expanse? How was the extraordinary structure built -- with what technology, skills, and materials? In Hadrian's Wall, Adrian Goldsworthy embarks on a historical and archaeological investigation, sifting fact from legend while simultaneously situating the wall in the wider scene of Roman Britain. The result is a concise and enthralling history of a great architectural marvel of the ancient world.
Hadrian's Wall
Author: William DietrichPublisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0061744808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A fusion of Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire and the movie Braveheart; a novel of ancient warfare, lethal politics, and the final great clash of Roman and Celtic culture. For three centuries, the stone barrier we know as Hadrian's Wall shielded Roman Britain from the unconquered barbarians of the island's northern highlands. But when Valeria, a senator's daughter, is sent to the Wall for an arranged marriage to an aristocratic officer in 367 AD, her journey unleashes jealousy, passion and epic war. Valeria's new husband, Marcus, has supplanted the brutally efficient veteran soldier Galba as commander of the famed Petriana cavalry. Yet Galba insists on escorting the bride–to–be on her journey to the Wall. Is he submitting to duty? Or plotting revenge? And what is the mysterious past of the handsome barbarian chieftain Arden Caratacus, who springs from ambush and who seems to know so much of hated Rome? As sharp as the edge of a spatha sword and as piercing as a Celtic arrow, Hadrian's Wall evokes a lost world of Roman ideals and barbaric romanticism.
Hadrian's Wall Path
Author: Mark RichardsPublisher: Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN: 1787650103
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The essential guidebook to walking the 135km (84 mile) Hadrian's Wall Path. One of the UK's most visited National Trails, it runs the length of the Roman Wall from Bowness-on-Solway in Cumbria to Wallsend, Newcastle. The trail is presented here in 10 stages, with suggestions for five and eight-day itineraries. It is suitable for beginners, although a reasonable level of fitness is required if doing it as a multi-day walk. The route is described both west to east and east to west, and the guidebook also features an extension through Newcastle to South Shields on the east coast. This guidebook contains a wealth of information on the history of the Wall, and a range of practical information for walkers, from accommodation and itinerary planning, to details on public transport and refreshments. A separate map booklet of 1:25,000 scale OS maps shows the full route. Clear step-by-step route descriptions in the guide are illustrated by 1:100,000 OS map extracts. The route description links together with the map booklet at each stage along the way, and the compact format is conveniently sized for slipping into a jacket pocket or the top of a rucksack.
The English Archæologist's Handbook
Author: Henry GodwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description