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THE 



ANTIQUITIES 



O F 



NORTHUMBERLAND, &c. 



JOURNEY I. 



From the Weft to the Eaft End of the famous Roman Wall y 

 and on Part of the great military Road. 



UNDER the name of the Roman Wall are included three Pr<s- 

 tenturnE or defences againft the inroads of the Pifts ; viz. 

 Hadrian's, computed to have been built Anno Chrijll 123 ; 

 Severus's, Anno 210; and the laft made by the provincial Britons 

 conjuncHy with the Romans under the third confulate of JEtius, 

 A. U.C.I 1 98, Anno Chrifti, 444, or, according to Archbifhop 

 UJf}er, 446. Hadrian's is acknowledged by all the learned in 

 antiquity to have been cefpititious, or of turf, but they differ with 

 refpect to Se-verus's \ and the Roman writers, Spartian, Eufropius, 

 Aurelins Fiffor, Cajfiodorus, and Pau/us Diaconus, are not clear enough 

 to decide the controverfy with precifion, whether it was of turf, 

 or ftone, only expreffing it by the words Munis and Vallum fa). 



(a) cpart. in Severn. 



Eutrcp. Breviar. Hift. 1. 8. p 1 18. Ed. Frar.cf. 

 /urtl. ViSlor in Sevtro. 

 CaJJiod. in Severs. 

 Paul. Dlacon. 1. 8. 



II. B Vene- 



