🛡️ Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Hadrian's Wall vallum, wall miles 64–65, Whiteclosegate to Wall Knowe
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 1987
- Constructed early 2nd century CE under Emperor Hadrian
- Defensive earthwork (vallum) with parallel ditch and flanking mounds
- Located in northern England between Whiteclosegate and Wall Knowe
This section of Hadrian's Wall preserves a 2 km stretch of the vallum, the defensive earthwork that ran parallel to the stone wall itself. Located between field boundaries north of Whiteclosegate and west of Wall Knowe in wall miles 64 and 65, the site retains visible traces of the original ditch and mounds that demarcated the controlled Roman zone from unconquered territories to the north. The section forms part of the larger UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Frontiers of the Roman ...