He achieved greater things than those, for after repulsing the enemy in Britain, he drew a Wall from sea to sea.
The younger Victor, in his epitome of the work of the elder, says—
He drew a Vallum thirty-two miles long from sea to sea.
Eutropius wrote about the year 360. He says—
Severus’s last war was in Britain; he drew a Wall of thirty-two miles from sea to sea.
Paulus Orosius, who wrote A.D. 417, says, that the conqueror Severus—
Having fought many severe battles, determined to separate the part of the island which he had recovered, from the tribes that remained unsubdued, and, therefore, drew a deep fosse, and a very strong Vallum (magnam fossam firmissimumque vallum), strengthened with numerous towers, from sea to sea, over a space of one hundred and thirty-two miles.
Cassiodorus, who wrote A.D. 520, gives a similar testimony. Among the events of the consulship of Aper and Maximus (A.D. 207), he enumerates the transference of the war by Severus to Britain—
Where, that he might render the subject provinces more secure against the incursions of the barbarians, he drew a Wall (vallum) from sea to sea, one hundred and thirty-two miles in length.
VALUE OF THEIR TESTIMONY.