It's the ancients on History Hit.

I'm Tristan Hughes, your host.

And in today's podcast where the eyes of the world are currently on the City of Glasgow

for COP26, the Climate Change Conference.

And so this week, it seems like the ideal time to release our episode about Glasgow's

Roman Remains.

That's right.

We're talking about a site dating to the mid-second century AD called Beersden.

Part of what was the frontier we know as the Antenine Rule.

And to talk through the archaeology from this site, I was delighted to get on the show,

the man who excavated the site a few decades ago.

And this is Professor David Breese.

Now David, he's considered royalty among Roman-Britain archaeologists.

He's got a long esteemed career he's done work on Beersden, on the wider Antenine Rule,

and he's also done a lot of work on Hadrian's World.

Now as we've got David on the show, we start off talking about Beersden, but we also do

end up talking about Hadrian's World, and in particular, focusing in on the initial construction

of Hadrian's World.

Why was it built?

Was it built in a hurry against an immediate threat?

Or were there other potential factors at play?

So without further ado to answer all of these questions and more, here's David.

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