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🛡️ Frontiers of the Roman Empire

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🛡️ Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 10 from Dene House to Throckley Bank Top


🕐 3 min read · Updated 1 Apr 2026 at 13:35

UNESCOUNESCO World Heritage Site

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  • Located west of Newcastle upon Tyne, northern England, spanning wall mile 10
  • Built under Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century CE as a military barrier and customs boundary
  • Includes surviving stone wall, ditch, berm, vallum, and military road infrastructure
  • UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1987 as part of Frontiers of the Roman Empire

Wall mile 10 of Hadrian's Wall occupies rising ground west of Newcastle upon Tyne, where the Roman army engineered a controlled military frontier zone. This stretch preserves traces of the Wall itself, the northern ditch, the berm, the parallel vallum to the south, and associated military infrastructure. The surviving earthworks and buried features document how this sector functioned as part of Rome's extensive border system across northern Britain ...

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