Great walls stretching across the country from coast to coast.
Why Was The Antonine Wall Abandoned. Historians generally struggled and failed to understand the limes built around the roman empire. The wall was built in the years after ad 142 on the orders of the emperor antoninus pius by the roman army under the command of the governor lollius.
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Why the wall was built, and why it was abandoned after so short a time, despite the enormous investment in in the antonine wall, david j. The antonine wall is a stone and turf fortification built by the romans across what is now the central belt of scotland, between the firth of forth and the firth of clyde. The purpose was apparently to defend the frontier from raids.
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Like the wall in game of thrones — for which it likely served as inspiration — the antonine wall was meant to keep dangerous northerners away. The antonine wall itself was abandoned a few decades before hadrian's wall because the romans lost interest in conquering caledonia, and the territory between hadrian's wall and the antonine wall was not attracting any settlers, for obvious reasons. See more of the antonine wall on facebook. The wall was abandoned in 162… it appears the romans were unable to maintain this northern barrier and the how did alexander the great sustain his army?
