> wrote in message
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> "Graeme...in London" > wrote:
> > "Bob (this one)" > wrote in message
> > <snippage>
> > > Not a chance. Sheldon can't pass up a chance to call Brits
> > > by their most hated name, WOP. Ouch, I bet that really
> > > hurts. Nothing is too low for the guy...
> >
> > Sheldon assumed from my sig that I'm a Londoner, or English, which I'm
> > certainly not. 110% Scottish, and proud of it, too.
> >
> > I understand WOP to mean having Italian ancestrary. Probably unbeknown
to
> > Sheldon, the Romans didn't invade Scotland. They defined the
> > Scotland/England border that remains today.
>
> Actually, while Scotland never became part of the Roman Empire, there were
> Roman incursions into Scotland from 79 AD to 208 AD. The Romans were never
> able to subjugate the Scots.
Correct. The Romans ventured as far as Bo'ness on the East and Old
Kirkpatrick to the West, and they built a second wall, Antonine Wall. My
mother lives no more than 300 meters from the walls end and a turret still
stands today. A vast swathe of wall was lost a few years ago when an old
disused mine shaft collapsed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonine_Wall
> Graeme, does the British/Scottish boundary follow the course of Hadrian痴
> Wall? Dumb Sichy from da Bronx question. ;-)
Not exactly, but very close. Hadrians Wall is solely in England, but only by
a few miles. The border areas between the wall and the current border were
fought over for years.
Graeme