[HN Gopher] No Stone Unturned: Hadrian's Wall
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       No Stone Unturned: Hadrian's Wall
        
       Author : magda_wang
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2022-05-06 17:32 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | alasdair_ wrote:
       | If you wonder where George RR Martin got the idea for a wall
       | keeping out the Picts^h^h^h^h^h Wildlings from invading the
       | "civilized" lands to the south, this is where.
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       | There is also the Antonine wall, which was intended to supersede
       | Hadrian's, which I happened to grow up a few hundred feet from.
       | The ruins of a Roman bathhouse are just sitting there, next to
       | regular houses, and almost no one ever visits them. Worth a brief
       | stop if you happen to be nearby.
       | https://www.antoninewall.org/visiting-the-wall/things-to-see...
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonine_Wall
        
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