Why is Hadrian's wall SO famous, I mean it is just a wall........around the northern fronteir of Roman Britian

Question

I saw it in a book, so I am so CURIOUS

Answer 1

It was built to keep the Pictish tribes, (the original inhabitants of Scotland) who came down from the north burning villages, stealing cattle and attacking Roman outposts by the 9th Hispania Legio and the 20th Legio under orders of the Emperor Hadrian
around 122 AD.It's a 73 mile long wall with small forts every mile or so garrisoned by a centurion and 80 Roman legionaires and auxillary troops;ie: archers and cavalry and they usually ambushed the Pictish raiders on their way back or as they were trying to exploit a breach in the wall.
Unfortunately, the wall was abandoned and Emperor Antoninus Pius around 140 AD who built Antonine's wall 160m to tthe north to contain the Caledonian and other Scottish tribes.In the end, he had withdraw the garrisoms and reman Hadian's wall until the last Roman legions left Britain.

Answer 2

It's basically the extent of the Roman Empire. The Roman empire built the wall because they were at the limits of expanding. Legions work by expanding and pillaging, so they had to keep expanding, but they reached a limit. Walls are built to keep people out or in. In this case, it was to keep people out, the northern tribes of Scotland, Britain. You have a shifting time from the Roman period to the beginning of the dark ages where towns were now being built with walls for defense because the empire and the peace was destabilizing.

Answer 3

Why is anything famous? Because a lot of people know about, because it has historical significance, because it is useful. What kind of question is that?