A significant portion of the wall still exists and can be followed on foot along the Hadrian's Wall Path. It is the most popular tourist attraction in Northern England
In AD 78 the emperor Vespasian appointed the famous general Agricola as governor of the unruly province of Britain. After seven years of vigorous campaigning, Agricola had succeeded in subduing the south of the island, and had advanced far into Scotland. But he never conquered the ferocious and uncivilized tribes of Picts and Scots who then inhabited that part of the country.
Agricola built a temporary frontier, guarded by a line of posts, along a line between the present Solway Firth and the mouth of the Tyne. About 30 years after Agricola's departure, however, the southern tribes became dangerously restive, and in one of their risings the 9th legion at York, consisting of from 3,000 to 6,000 Roman soldiers, was massacred. After this, in 122 the emperor Hadrian came to Britain with another legion to replace the 9th and gave orders that the defense of the island should be reorganized and the south separated from the north by a wall running from coast to coast. He entrusted the building of this wall to the governor Aulus Platorius Nepos.
In 2013 we had a really cool weekend, with the Swords of Dalradia at Hadrian's Wall.
