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## [Who Built Hadrian's Wall? or, The Case of the 173 Page Footnote](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/who-built-hadrians-wall-or-the-case-of-the-173-page-footnote/2017)

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Thus begins a long Twitter thread on the history of the attribution of Hadrian’s wall, and John Hodgson, the clergyman whose 1840 History of Northumberland (link is to a Google Books scan of a copy in the Ashmolean Mus…