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The Antonine Wall (Latin: Vallum Antonini) was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland, ...
Mumrills was the site of the largest Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. [1] It is possible that Mumrills could exchange signals with Flavian Gask Ridge forts. [2] Some believe Mumrills may have been the site of Wallace's defeat at the Battle of Falkirk. [3] The farm at Mumrills was also used as an early site for the Falkirk Relief ...
Watling Lodge was a Roman fortlet on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. [1] It was located near what is now Lock Sixteen on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Falkirk with neighbouring forts at Rough Castle to the west and Falkirk to the east. [2] There was also a fort at Camelon to the north. There was also a Roman temporary camp found a short distance ...
The Bridgeness Slab is a Roman distance slab created around 142 CE marking a portion of the Antonine Wall built by the Second Legion. [1] It is regarded as the most detailed and best preserved of the Scottish distance slabs. [2] The sandstone tablet was found at Bridgeness in Bo'ness, Scotland in 1868 on a promontory close to Harbour Road. [3]
Bo'ness has important historical links to the Roman period and marks the eastern extent of the Antonine Wall (at Carriden in the north-east of Bo'ness) which stretched from Bo'ness to Old Kilpatrick on the west coast of Scotland. The Antonine Wall was named as an extension to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site by UNESCO in ...
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Auchendavy was a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. [2] Much of the site archeology was destroyed by the builders of the Forth and Clyde Canal. [3] Between Bar Hill and Balmuildy the wall roughly follows the southern bank of the River Kelvin. [4] The site of the fort is north of Kirkintilloch's northern border. [5]
The Roman Antonine Wall runs through the town, and the remains of a military bath house can be seen near the town centre. The current settlement began in the 17th century as the kirkton of the parish of New Kilpatrick , and when a railway connection to Glasgow was constructed in 1863, it developed into an affluent suburb of the city.