The Historia Augusta records that at the start of Hadrian's reign "the Britons could not be kept under Roman control" and that there were serious losses. This crisis — perhaps a major northern incursion — may have been what prompted Hadrian to visit Britain in 122 AD and to order the construction of his wall. The scale of the emergency can be inferred from the dispatch of a relief force from the Rhineland and possibly a Spanish cohort.
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