Travelog: Ruin Hunting (Roman Britannia & Hadrian's Wall)

I came to the Roman Empire’s northern frontier looking for ruins but found vestiges of an empire that were much more personal. This is my Travelog of what Rome built, lost, and left behind in Britain.

I came to the Roman Empire’s northern frontier looking for ruins but found vestiges of an empire that were much more personal. This is my Travelog of what Rome built, lost, and left behind in Britain.

This fall, I traveled for four weeks, bookended by a Socratic seminar at Oxford in mid-September and an adventure retreat in Iceland in mid-October. I deci…