Hadrian’s Wall and Frontier Identities across Time
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 04/07/2019

This paper addresses the idea of Britain’s famous Roman monument as a multi-temporal frontier work (cf. Hingley 2012; Hingley 2018). Addressing the creation of frontier communities in Roman times has been made to interact with the perceived roles of the monument through time as a national and international divider. Three periods in the Wall’s history are explored—the second to fourth centuries, the Renaissance (late C16 to early C17) and the present. The aim is to identify the ways that ideas about the identities of the communities of this frontier landscape at these times have been created through reference to the monumental Roman past.

Richard Hingley (Durham University)

TAG Deva 2018
Session: Location, Location, Location: Constructing Frontier Identity