Hadrian's Wall
The Roman legions (armies) of the governor of Roman Britain, Platorius Nepos, built the wall for the emperor between 122 and 126. The wall was about  long. Most of the wall –  – was made of stone. To the west of this section – for  – the wall was made of turf. The stone part of the wall was  thick and about  tall. The wall's turf part was  thick and about  tall. To start with, the wall's east end was at Newcastle upon Tyne (), but later the Romans built more stone wall for  to the east, to Wallsend on Tyne. In front of the wall (on the northern side) was a ditch. The ditch was  away from the wall. The ditch was at about  deep and was normally about  wide. The Romans used the wall for at least two hundred years.