Originally Posted by Starman
Originally Posted by Gus

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'.. grin

Hadrian's wall turned out to be an enormously
expensive project, and in the bigger picture
occupying Britain was Rome's "Afghanistan".



one could argue that but it might be weak.

they extended as far north as they could and still keep their supply lines intact.

once they started meeting resistance they built a defensive wall. yes, to keep the riff-raff out.

but if the legion was strong enough, had enough slaves and supplies they'd have pushed to the far north end.

but they didn't do that. they set up a defensive perimeter and dug in. always a bit of dissonance in the picture for sure.