But why?

>inb4 joke about how we're gonna make the Picts pay for it

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>>3114359
To regulate trade going both ways, present an obstacle for upstart tribes, to show them what Rome was capable of just to keep out some rabble rousers far from the center of power, to protect Roman citizens and investments south of it, to give the legions something to do...
Hadrian was the last good Emperor, fight me.

>>3114359
They feared the red warrior

>>3114359
Literally to stop cattle theft. Try getting a cow or a sheep over that while on the run.

>>3114700

......that actually makes sense. It always bugged me because the wall is clearly too short to actually stop a person from climbing over. But getting a cow over that would be a bitch and a half.

>>3114359
How did they make the stones bricks?

Did they use fire?

>>3114716
>It always bugged me because the wall is clearly too short to actually stop a person from climbing over
Dipshit, the wall was built nearly a thousand years ago. It was much, much larger in its hey day.

>>3114752
>walls shrink over time
uh don't think so bud

>>3114359
I think that the Roman empire, have a fear, a panic of the Scotland tribes

>>3114752

Unless somebody came an intentionally shortened the wall (which sounds like a lot of wasted effort) why would it get shorter over time?

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>>3114786
Just in case
>Hadrian's Wall fell into ruin and over the centuries the stone was reused in other local buildings.
>Much of the wall has now disappeared. Long sections of it were used for roadbuilding in the 18th century,[22] especially by General Wade to build a military road (most of which lies beneath the present day B6318 "Military Road") to move troops to crush the Jacobite insurrection. The preservation of much of what remains can be credited to John Clayton.
Not to mention erosion, you fucking morons. The thing was abandoned by the 500s, so that's roughly 1500 years where locals have been able to repurpose the material and rain to have eroded it down quite a bit.

>>3115182
It would make sense to find parts of the wall with higher height as well dont you think?

>>3114700
>>3114716
>>3114774
>>3114786
>>3115192
>its width and height varied according to the construction materials available nearby. East of the River Irthing, the wall was made from squared stone and measured 3 metres (10 feet) wide and 5 to 6 metres (16 to 20 feet) high, while west of the river the wall was originally made from turf and measured 6 metres (20 feet) wide and 3.5 metres (11 feet) high; it was later rebuilt in stone. These dimensions do not include the wall's ditches, berms and forts. The central section measured eight Roman feet wide (7.8 ft or 2.4 m) on a 3 m (10 ft) base. Some parts of this section of the wall survive to a height of 3 m (10 ft).
I'll be conciliatory; it probably wasn't much higher than the surviving ruins, but it wasn't a simple cattle guard as one anon said.
>Another possible explanation for the wall is the degree of control it would have provided over immigration, smuggling and customs.[9] Limites did not strictly mark the boundaries of the empire: Roman power and influence often extended beyond the walls.[9] People within and beyond the limes travelled through it each day when conducting business, and organised check-points like those offered by Hadrian's Wall provided good opportunities for taxation. With watch towers only a short distance from gateways in the limes, patrolling legionaries could have kept track of entering and exiting natives and Roman citizens alike, charging customs dues and checking for smuggling.[citation needed] Another theory is of a simpler variety—that Hadrian's Wall was partly constructed to reflect the power of Rome and was used as a political point by Hadrian. Once its construction was finished, it is thought to have been covered in plaster and then whitewashed: its shining surface reflected the sunlight and was visible for miles around.[9]

>>3115240
As we can see from this information, it was built as a show of power, an economic checkpoint, an immigration barrier, something to keep the legions busy, and a safeguard for Roman economic interests in Britannia.
Remember, children, though his immediate predecessor Trajan expanded the Empire to memetistic heights, Hadrian pragmatically pulled it back and established limits; a controversial decision from an Emperor who was put on the throne through Plotina's scheming.
Also, he was fabulously gay. Not an occasional catamite fucker like Caesar or any other Emperor, not a trans queen like Elagobulus, he was straight up gay and didn't care who knew it. Funny guy, Hadrian, probably fucked Marcus Aurelius once or twice.

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>>3114359

>keep the whites out

>>3114774
It used to have wooden structures and towers and shit.
Also, people in the post roman period were famous for peeling up roads and shit for stones to build houses. Also, the ground grew around it.
Go read Notre Dame de Paris, and you'll learn how Notre Dame used to have stairs

>>3114359
Hadrian apparently built it to send a message that Roman expansion was to stop, to discourage Trajan-style needless expeditions and the possibility of losing legions needlessly for vanity projects.

>>3114372
That would have been a good joke. Why'd you have to go and ruin it like that?