Hadrian's Wall. Within this plot, covered by red concrete stand the lower courses of the south face of Hadrian's wall built first in A.D. 122 from Newcastle Upon Tyne to Bowness on Solway, and afterwards extended to Wallsend, a distance in all of 80 Roman miles. The wall was here 10 feet wide, built with ashlar faces and rubble core and is considered to have been 15 feet high to the rampart walk.