Hadrian built a wall

One day Hadrian decided to build a wall. He was fed up with all the noise from his neighbours, the Scots. They were a wild lot and lowered the tone of the neighbourhood, which severely affected property values. They wore dresses and never bathed. Hadrian was the CEO of Roman Inc at the time and though he wasn't really a local, he was big and powerful. He rounded up some guest workers from Poland or some other far-flung corner of the empire and damn well built a bloody great wall from west to east (or was it east to west?) across the whole country to keep the Scots out. It only took him and his mates 7 years to build with no outsourcing or sub-contracting! After several thousand years Rome Inc decided that they had enough of the whole island and decided that those damn Scots could have that Godforsaken place which they called Scot-land and resume their endless battles with the tribes to the south. Anyway it was bloody freezing and never stopped raining. Rome Inc had started fighting amongst themselves were fed up with empire building - it wasn't worth trying to civilize those barbarians. So they cleared off back to Rome to sort out the internal factional problems and left the locals to it. Of course they showed no respect and pinched all the stone from the wall for their houses. However Hadrian built his wall to last and it was bloody long so it will probably last for a few thousand years...see photo