- Talkin
Talkin is a
village inCumbria ,England . Area soil is dry and gravelly. [ [http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/1901/hayton1901_f.html Hayton, Cumbria profile] ] The earliest recorded history of the local area is related to the Roman occupation of this region and construction ofHadrian's Wall . In122 AD , the Romans constructedHadrian's Wall , the course of which somewhat north of Talkin. The length of Hadrian's Wall is 117 kilometres, spanning Britain; the wall incorporatedAgricola's Ditch and was initially constructed chiefly of turf in the western reaches, [ [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18177 C.Michael Hogan (2007) "Hadrian's Wall", ed. Andy Burnham, The Megalithic Portal] ] such as near Talkin. The wall was designed primarily to prevent entrance by small bands of raiders or unwantedimmigration from the north, not as a fighting line for a majorinvasion according to Johnson. [Stephen Johnson (2004) Hadrian's Wall, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc, 128 pages, ISBN 0713488409]ee also
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Solway Plain
*Stanegate
*Talkin Tarn References
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