Hadrian's Wall
Hadrian's Wall was inscribed in 1987, meeting three of the UNESCO criteria as:
- Bearing an outstanding testimony to a past civilisation
- Being an outstanding example of a building and technology which illustrates a significant stage in human history
- Being an outstanding example of landuse which is representative of a culture
The part of the Upper German and Raetian frontier between the rivers Rhine and Danube was inscribed in July 2005 as an extension of Hadrian's Wall. At the same time, the name has changed to 'Frontiers of the Roman Empire WHS' as a trans-national WHS, containing initially Hadrian's Wall and the upper German frontier. Other parts of the frontier will be added in due course.
Those countries which have already declared their intention to put forward their sections of the frontier are Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia, as well as the Antonine Wall in the UK. The Frontiers of the Roman Empire WHS could in time embrace the line of the entire frontier of the Roman Empire from the Solway Firth to the Atlantic coast of Morocco.
