05-08-2010, 03:59 PM
I think we have to look at the many major military and political events that took place from the time of Domitian right on thro' to Hadrian. The major withdrawal from Scotland in 98AD may well have been the idea of Domitian but not put into effect until Trajan came along.
Then when we look at the plans of Trajan he went off into Dacia and then eastward, therefore there was never any great thoughts for such a task. There was a frontier line of forts laid across Britain from eastcoast to westcoast, but then everything began to fall apart at the advent of Hadrian.
This line was revised later by Hadrian with his stone wall and later another wall put further north by Antoninus Pius but then again things begin to fall apart elsewere as the Empire started to go very fast into decline.
The war of Septimius Severus was where he had to put to right what Clodius Albinus had caused to the provinnce, but then his death sent them all off into the east again.
Then when we look at the plans of Trajan he went off into Dacia and then eastward, therefore there was never any great thoughts for such a task. There was a frontier line of forts laid across Britain from eastcoast to westcoast, but then everything began to fall apart at the advent of Hadrian.
This line was revised later by Hadrian with his stone wall and later another wall put further north by Antoninus Pius but then again things begin to fall apart elsewere as the Empire started to go very fast into decline.
The war of Septimius Severus was where he had to put to right what Clodius Albinus had caused to the provinnce, but then his death sent them all off into the east again.
Brian Stobbs
