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Walltown Crags, Hadrian's Wall, c2nd century, (c1960s). Reconstruction drawing. A defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia, begun in 122 AD in the reign of the emperor Hadrian. It ran from the banks of the River Tyne near the North Sea to the Solway Firth on the Irish Sea, and was the northern limit of the Roman Empire. Walltown Crags is perhaps the most scenic place to view Hadrian's Wall.