my ancestors, the scotti, all came from north of hadrian's wall. we were the pagans or heathens.
that is according to the roman legion who built a wall to help keep us out.
we were wild people, w/o redeeming social value.
Depends how you look at it, one could say
the walls were to keep your forefathers
in,
like a ghetto for 'barbarians'..
Hadrian's wall turned out to be an enormously
expensive project, and in the bigger picture
occupying Britain was Rome's "Afghanistan".
