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Frank Graham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Published 1976. Wraps, 31 pp.; 22 cm; Fifth Edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps, and diagrams.
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In Very Good condition. Yellow and white illustrated paper covers with light shelf and edge wear. Stapled binding tight. Pages mildly toned. Otherwise unmarked.A concise scholarly account of how the Roman Wall was built, written for Frank Graham's Northern History Booklets series (No. 67) by two leading historians of the Roman frontier. Originally prepared to accompany a series of six broadcasts on Radio Durham for adult students, it reconstructs the building sequence from the combined evidence of inscriptions, coins, literary sources, and excavation: the search for a frontier, the first scheme, the shift from Broad Wall to Narrow Wall, the milecastles, turrets and forts, the Vallum, the Turf Wall, and the Cumberland Coast defences. Illustrated with aerial and site photographs (Housesteads, Willowford, Benwell), diagrams, and maps, with the original Latin and epigraphic evidence quoted and a book-list for further reading.