Hadrian’s Wall is located near the border between modern-day Scotland and England. It runs in an east-west direction, from Wallsend and Newcastle on the River Tyne in the east, traveling about 73 miles west to Bowness-on-Solway on Solway Firth. The wall took at least six years to complete. Construction started at the east end and moved westward.

So it’s evident that Hadrian’s Wall is very closely identified as the border that divides England and Scotland. Unfortunately for jokers and scaremongers, the Roman structure actually lies some way to the south of this line. The wall was constructed in the AD 120s and appears to have been in use until the early fifth century AD.