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1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) i. 44 That admirable Roman wall in the North of England..for keeping out of the Picts.]

1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. iv. 179 Not better was the end of Elswald in Northumberland, two years after slain miserably by the conspiracy of Siggan, one of his Nobles, others say of the whole people at Scilcester by the Roman Wall.

1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. i. iii. 411 The Roman Wall in Scotland... The first occasion of building the Roman Wall, which now goes by the Name of Graham's Dyke, was..to exclude the Scotch-Highlanders.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 6 Part of Brown's view in chusing that unusual track..had been a desire to view the remains of the celebrated Roman Wall.

1977 Times 18 June 14 I am reserving the last excellent stretch of the walk out along the Roman Wall and by Cheviot to Kirk Yetholm for a few days.

2000 M. McALlister Ghost at Window i. 2 Remains of farms, leftovers from other tumbled-down towers, and stones from the Roman Wall and the ruined Border abbeys were all in those walls.