🛡️ Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Sunnybrae at Halton Shields and Haltonchesters Roman fort in wall miles 20 and 21
📌 Fast Facts
- Part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire UNESCO World Heritage Site, inscribed in 1987
- Located in northern England between wall miles 20 and 21, spanning from Sunnybrae at Halton Shields to Haltonchesters
- Built under Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century CE as a military barrier and customs boundary
- Integrates wall, vallum, fort, milecastle, turrets, and military road as a unified defensive system
This section of Hadrian's Wall lies between Sunnybrae at Halton Shields and Haltonchesters Roman fort, occupying wall miles 20 and 21. It forms part of the transnational World Heritage property known as the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The landscape here preserves a continuous stretch of the Wall, its supporting earthworks, and the traces of Roman military planning that shaped the northern frontier of Britannia ...