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The Flying Archaeologist: Episode 3: Hadrian's Wall: Life on the Frontier

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Hadrian's Wall: Life on the Frontier

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Episode 3: Hadrian's Wall: Life on the Frontier

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Ben Robinson flies over Hadrian's Wall to reveal a new view of its history.

Ben Robinson flies over Hadrian's Wall to reveal a landscape of hundreds of sites of human occupation suggesting the area was richly populated.

Archaeologist Ben Robinson flies over Hadrian's Wall to reveal a new view of its history. The first full aerial survey of Hadrian's Wall has helped uncover new evidence about the people who once lived there. Carried out over the last few years by English Heritage, it is allowing archaeologists to reinterpret the wall. Across the whole landscape hundreds of sites of human occupation have been discovered, showing that people were living here in considerable numbers. Their discoveries are suggesting that far from being a barren military landscape, the whole area was richly populated before during and after the wall was built. There is also exciting new evidence that the Romans were here earlier than previously thought.

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Archaeologist Ben Robinson flies over ancient sites in the UK.

Archaeologist Ben Robinson flies over ancient sites in the UK to reveal new evidence of civilisations revealed by aerial surveys.

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