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The Ancient World in London - Hadrian's Wall Illuminated (7/25)
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Temat: Społeczeństwo i nauki społeczne
Addison Lee is proud to sponsor the Ancient World in London series.
This week, we travel 300 miles north to Hadrian's Wall.
We know it's a long way out, but this year
marks the 1600th anniversary since the Romans left Britain!
So to mark it, Hadrian's Wall got its own special light show.
This is a once in a 1600 year chance, so
how on earth could Heritage Key miss it?
We took Nicole to chilly Carlisle to see what all the fuss is about.
I'm here at Hadrian's Wall, the edge of the Roman empire. Behind
me are the Romans, in front of me, the crazy Picts.
As you can see, it's still sunlight here so before the sun sets, I'm
going to scoot around and find out as much as I can.
We wanted to celebrate our unique landscape and heritage and we couldn't think
of a better way to do that than to illuminate the wall.
I'm joined here by Kathleen and Matthias. Why are you here today?
Well, we were chosen to be one of the illuminators.
We are Roman re-enactors, we are part of a German group so
we have been doing this for over 10 years now.
And I love your outfits!
It's handmade by ourselves. I'm a Roman legionary, and I wear
an original wear of a man of this time.
Roman belt, sword, and a Roman helmet.
I am his slave girl, so my outfit is pretty basic.
So I'm wearing this tag that says I'm his.
And for the rest I'm just wearing a long skirt, tunica, it is called. It's
made of linen and on top of that I'm wearing a wool cloak.
It's part of our own history. They're our ancestors, so to say, so
a lot of their culture has been taken over by us nowadays.
The Emperor Hadrian realised very sensibly that he needed
to contain the borders of the Roman Empire.
Three legions of soldiers were involved, up to 18,000
men in the building of the wall.
A lot say it was to keep out the Picts who were marauding from
the North, but clearly the wall was a trading post as well,
and it could be that the Romans were protecting the very valuable mineral deposits
that lie south of the wall in the North Pennines and Cumbria.
We either have a beacon to light, or there's a flare or a torch.
To be chosen to be an illuminator is just incredible.
It's an incredible, exciting moment in my life.
15% of the entire Roman army of the Roman
empire, at times, was based on Hadrian's Wall.
So that tells you it must have been a
very critical part of defending the Roman Empire.
About every 5 miles across the wall there is a major fort,
so there are 11 major forts right across the Northern frontier.
They hold anywhere from 500 to 800 men. At every Roman mile across the
wall, there's a mile castle which has between 12 and 20 men.
And inbetween the milecastles there were 2 turrets where they
might have been a much smaller number of soldiers.
Very close to here we have Vindolanda, and Vindolanda was an administrative fort,
and there has been a 30 year excavation programme at Vindolanda
which has revealed some of the most amazing finds in Roman England.
Britain's number one treasures was found there, which was the Vindalanda writing
tablets. And these were an example of Britain's earliest handwriting.
There's a wonderful letter from the wife of the commander of Vindalanda,
inviting her friends across the wall to a birthday party.
There are wonderful letters from soldiers asking for more socks, more jumpers, more sweaters.
Also a number of tablets which have a lot of information about food
and food orders such as "Bring me olives back from Rome!".
Now the sun has gone down and the wall has been illuminated, you can see
how immense this really is, with the specks of light snaking into the distance.
I've absolutely loved today and I can't wait until my next adventure.
Re-enactment groups are a great way of bringing history to life and we're
urging you to get out and see what you can find.
So this week's question is, if you had a time machine and you
could go back and visit any historical event, which would it be?
Leave your comments below!
