About 2,000 years ago, the Romans conquered Britain,       and the Britons became part of the Roman Empire. About seventy-five years after the Romans arrived, the Roman Emperor Hadrian came to Britain and ordered his soldiers to build a great wall. The soldiers then had to patrol the wall. It is known as Hadrian's wall, and you can still see parts of it today. It stretches across the north of Britain from east to west, and passes near to Vindolanda.