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Notebook #2: Hadrian's Wall, The Goth, The Lemon Twigs

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Kenny Farquharson
Aug 20, 2023
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Roman fort at Housesteads, on Hadrian’s Wall. Credit: The Jaggy Thistle

Roman in the gloamin’

On a family holiday to Rome when my sons were teenagers we went to the Colosseum. Opting for the official tour we wandered the ruins while our guide gave a potted history of the Roman empire.

Roman rule, we were told, stretched from the Atlantic to the Persian Gu…

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