Sculpture in Scotland CE, building a series of forts, but by 87 CE the occupation was limited to the Southern Uplands and by the end of the first century the northern extent of Roman occupation was a line drawn between the Tyne and Solway Firth. The Romans eventually withdrew to a line in what is now northern England, building the fortification known as Hadrian's Wall from coast to coast. Around 141 CE they undertook a reoccupation of southern Scotland, moving up to construct a new "limes" between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde, where they built the fortification known as
Roman Wall (Sofia) Roman Wall (Sofia) The Roman Wall (, "Rimska stena") is the popular but incorrect name for an early Ottoman-era architectural monument in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Part of a 16th or 17th-century Islamic religious building, it now stands in the middle of a small marketplace in the Lozenets neighbourhood. The Roman Wall is a rectangular structure of straight rows of bricks and stones. It exhibits a characteristic Ottoman construction method of surrounding the large cut stones with sets of bricks. The wall is situated with an east-west orientation and features two windows, with a "mihrab" niche in between. A