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The Short Version:
John Hodgson wrote a multi-volume work entitled 'A History of Northumberland', to which the correct attribution of the construction of Hadrian's Wall is but a peripheral matter.
So when he published PART II, VOLUME III in 1840, he appended the fruit of his considerable research on this matter as a single footnote.
This footnote runs to 173 pages of miniature type (almost 50% of the total page count of the book) and features its own internal diagrams, charts and illustrations!
In brief, it proves that, contrary to centuries of belief, Hadrian's Wall was actually 'built' predominantly by, well, Hadrian and not--as was long supposed--a chap called Severus.
Full text (footnote begins on p. 149):
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=D1IGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Long Version:
John Hodgson wrote a multi-volume work entitled 'A History of Northumberland', to which the correct attribution of the construction of Hadrian's Wall is but a peripheral matter.
So when he published PART II, VOLUME III in 1840, he appended the fruit of his considerable research on this matter as a single footnote.
This footnote runs to 173 pages of miniature type (almost 50% of the total page count of the book) and features its own internal diagrams, charts and illustrations!
In brief, it proves that, contrary to centuries of belief, Hadrian's Wall was actually 'built' predominantly by, well, Hadrian and not--as was long supposed--a chap called Severus.
Full text (footnote begins on p. 149):
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=D1IGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Long Version: