Click2Flicks - King Arthur - A Trip To The Wall - Chapter 3

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>KING ARTHUR</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 3 - A TRIP TO THE WALL</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">To man its <a href="http://www.britanniafilm.de/hadrian06.html" target="_blank"><b>defenses</b></a> along the wall, Rome built forts, or “<a href="http://www.britanniafilm.de/hadrian11.html" target="_blank"><b>milecastles</b></a>,” at prescribed intervals. The foundations of some of those milecastles still remain and are prominent features of English <a target="_blank" href="images/walking.tours.jpg"><b>walking tours</b></a>. The <a href="http://www.adhb30.dsl.pipex.com/roman11.htm" target="_blank"><b>wall</b></a> itself (like the later <a target="_blank" href="images/antonine.jpg"><b>Antonine</b></a> <a href="http://www.almac.co.uk/FalkirkTCM/Rome.htm" target="_blank"><b>Wall</b></a> built further <a target="_blank" href="images/north.gif"><b>north</b></a>) conformed to the <a target="_blank" href="images/surrounding.jpg"><b>surrounding</b></a> terrain.</p> <p>A few examples will allow you to “visit” the remains:</p><ul> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/milecastle.42.jpg"><b>Milecastle 42</b></a>, west of Cawfield Crags.</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/milecastle.39.jpg"><b>Milecastle 39</b></a>, from Peel Crags.</li><br><br> <li><a href="http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/england/wall_walltown/ac900820.html" target="_blank"><b>Tracking</b></a> its surrounding <a href="http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/england/wall_walltown/ac900818.html" target="_blank"><b>terrain</b></a>, the wall was built <a href="http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/england/wall_walltown/ac900736.html" target="_blank"><b>over</b></a> hills, <a href="http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/england/wall_walltown/ac900739.html" target="_blank"><b>through valleys</b></a>, and <a target="_blank" href="images/near.water.jpg"><b>near water</b></a>.</ul> <p><a href="http://www.american.edu/TED/ice/hadrian.htm" target="_blank"><b>Scottish clans</b></a> attacked and <a href="http://www.thenortheast.fsnet.co.uk/page5.htm" target="_blank"><b>overran</b></a> the wall in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. Since it was never as effective as Hadrian hoped, it was largely <a href="images/abandoned.jpg" target="_blank"><b>abandoned</b></a> in the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/britain/rom_saxons.shtml" target="_blank"><b>4th century</b></a>.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="king_arthur_ch2.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="king_arthur_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="king_arthur_ch4.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>