What is recorded here

Mile 64 still carries the vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate, a scheduled monument in Cumberland where the wall’s southern edge once rose as a living barrier. Soldiers may have dragged soil, water and stone along that ridge while ordinary people watched the military line consume the horizon. The land remembers the labour even when the names have faded.

The National Heritage List for England records Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64 as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Built as part of the Roman fortification system under Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD, the vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate is important as a key element of the defensive earthworks associated with Hadrian's Wall, reflecting Roman military engineering and the frontier's strategic significance.

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