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Hadrian's Wall is a Roman defensive frontier built in the second century AD under the Emperor Hadrian to mark the northwestern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain. This section of the wall, located in wall miles 62 and 63 near Walby in Cumberland, represents part of the continuous stone barrier that stretched across northern England from the Solway Firth to the North Tyne. The monument comprises the wall itself together with the vallum, a substantial earthwork consisting of a ditch flanked by two parallel mounds that ran south of the wall and served administrative functions within the frontier zone. This particular stretch survives as a scheduled ancient monument and remains an important record of Roman military engineering and frontier management during the second to fourth centuries AD.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63 is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010980. View the official record →
Hadrian's Wall is a Roman defensive frontier built in the second century AD under the Emperor Hadrian to mark the northwestern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010980.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1010980.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including City wall, NE side (4.3 km), Carlisle Castle; medieval tower keep castle, two lengths of city wall, a 16th century battery, and part of an earlier Roman fort known as Luguvalium (4.5 km), Area of Roman and medieval towns, bounded by Annetwell Street, Abbey Street, Castle Street and Paternoster Row (4.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63 stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.