Hadrian's Wall bronze plaque

This bronze commemorative plaque records: Hadrian's Wall. Within this plot, covered by red concrete stand the lower courses of the south face of Hadrian's wall built first in A.D. 122 from Newcastle Upon Tyne to Bowness on Solway, and afterwards extended to Wallsend, a distance in all of 80 Roman miles. The wall was here 10 feet wide, built with ashlar faces and rubble core and is considered to have been 15 feet high to the rampart walk.

Hadrian's Wall was constructed under Emperor Hadrian beginning in A.D. 122 as a defensive fortification marking the northern limit of Roman Britain, stretching about 80 Roman miles from coast to coast. The wall exemplifies Roman military architecture and served to control movement and taxation across its length.