#Hadrians wall

[arthistoryiscooliguess]

yk what I love? that the first text we have written by a woman in England was a Roman woman inviting her best friend to her birthday

[flaroh]

Lights Over Hadrians Wall✨🌌🏛️

December’s illustration is of the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) appearing over soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall. It’s a snowy scene overlooking a vast stretch of the structure, with everyone (including animals) gazing up at the lights as they stand guard or, in the case of the auxiliary cavalry, embark on their patrols.

The past 12 months the aurora borealis been appearing frequently in Hadrians Wall country, which inspired this illustration. Also I’m calling this piece a spinoff of my Saturnalia in Hadrians Wall series, as it’s “same universe” but an anonymous cast of soldiers this time round🏛️

[thesilicontribesman]

The Temple of Mithras, Carrawburgh, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

[thevideowall]

Some absolute cunt has cut down the most iconic tree in my region, probably in England

The sycamore has stood at what's known as Sycmore Gap, the spot where Hadrian's Wall dips from one hill to the next, for around 300 years. It was made famous after featuring in the Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie in 1991 and gets hundreds of visitors a day, even in the middle of winter

Countless people have got engaged there and had their ashes spread at the beloved spot

What was surely the most photographed individual tree in Britain is now gone

[spaceguy44]

Damn they were FAST with updating the marker on Google Earth

[dopescissorscashwagon]

Hadrians Wall National Trail looking east towards the Whin Sill from Birdoswald

📸 by @HWpath / via Twitter

[strawberryjayne]

National Trust

We are shocked and desperately saddened to learn that the famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian's Wall has been felled overnight, in what appears to be an act of vandalism.

We know just how much this iconic tree is loved locally, nationally and by everyone who has visited.

The Guardian

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage in connection with the felling of the 300-year-old Sycamore Gap tree in the north of England

Officers arrested the teenager amid an outpouring of sadness over the destruction of the landmark, which has been a feature of the site at Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland for hundreds of years. The boy is in custody and assisting officers with their inquiries, Northumbria police said on Thursday.

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I cannot put into words how sad and angry this makes me feel.

[museeeuuuum]

Welcome to the news wrap-up, where I cover a wide variety of current affairs in the history, archaeology, and museum-related realms.

In this video, I discuss the Pokémon x Van Gogh exhibition, some great repatriation news, Mischief at the Mütter Museum, and more!!

[chronicallyuniconic]

I cannot believe some person(s) have felled the Sycamore Gap Tree at Hadrian's Wall.

Such a crime, to nature, humanity, poetry, art, history.

It's left me mainly without words, it's such tragedy? Yes I have shed some tears over this tree.

I cannot stop thinking about a many-hundreds-of-years-old tree and the life it has had, the things it has seen, the air it has breathed, the rains it has tasted, the winds that caressed it's foliage, the hands it has felt hug its trunk, the animals it has sheltered, the dry summers it burned, the long winters it suffered, the many seasons it went through yet endured, the thousands of lives a tree has touched & been touched by, where we have scattered ashes of our loves, brought new life to see, you could have a picnic if you wanted, pop the question if you pleased, it really was a place where you could just be.

All of it, gone. I'm so sorry❤️

[fantastictyphoonpeanut]

... see the world they said... Carthage they said! Carlisle, was what they actually said - Carlisle!

[thesilicontribesman]

The Temple of Mithras, Carrawburgh, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

[vox-anglosphere]

Built to repel the Scots, Hadrian's Wall runs 78 miles across England

[thealanwrightblog]

This is Sycamore Gap, which forms part of Hadrians Wall in Northumberland.

This iconic tree is over 200 years old and is visited regularly. It received notoriety throughout the world after it was chosen as a location in the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, which starred Morgan Freeman and Kevin Costner.

A mindless 16 year old thug thought it would be fun to take a chainsaw to it and two nights ago, presumably when his parents thought he was in bed, the tree that was a source of pleasure to millions, was hacked to the ground. Since it was destroyed the teenager and a second person - a 60 year old man - have been arrested.

I’ve gone way past sadness and am angry. Extremely angry.

It’s symptomatic of what a screwed up world we live in. A society in which no-one gives a toss.

[grassam]

Hadrian’s Arch, Thessaloniki, Greece, fifties

[thewanderingemporium]

Plant of the day

I wanted to share this photo I took of the Sycamore Gap tree around 2016. As I was up north for my undergrad dissertation project, it was too good a chance to miss.