Scotland · Region
12 places in East Dunbartonshire, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
Fortified place · Roman
East Dunbartonshire
The Romans built a stone-and-turf fortification, the Antonine Wall, between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth between AD 142 and 144 under…
Fortified place · Roman
East Dunbartonshire
The Antonine Wall was Rome’s short-lived northern frontier, joining nineteen forts to carved distance slabs whose paint, imagery and military messa…
Fortified place · Roman
East Dunbartonshire
Auchendavy was an Antonine Wall fort with an exceptional concentration of inscriptions, altars and military finds, despite severe damage from the F…
Fortified place · Roman
East Dunbartonshire
Balmuildy is one of only two Antonine Wall forts known to have stone ramparts, with excavated baths, inscriptions and objects now held in Glasgow’s…
Fortified place · Roman
East Dunbartonshire
Bar Hill’s fort, bathhouse and deep well preserve unusually direct evidence of Antonine Wall garrison life, including shoes that may point to women…
Fortified place · Roman
East Dunbartonshire
Bearsden preserves one of the Antonine Wall’s best-known military bathhouses, discovered beneath twentieth-century housing and now protected close…
Fortified place · Roman
East Dunbartonshire
Castlehill marks an Antonine Wall fort whose surviving plantation masks important Sixth Legion distance slabs and evidence for the frontier’s const…
Fortified place · Roman
East Dunbartonshire
Cleddans confirms the Antonine Wall’s system of small interval fortlets, while its richly carved legionary slabs record the construction and imager…
Crossing or structure · Roman
East Dunbartonshire
Glasgow Bridge marks a largely invisible Antonine Wall fortlet known through aerial evidence, beside a canal crossing that now connects Kirkintillo…
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Fortified place · Roman
East Dunbartonshire
Cadder’s quarried-away fort survives through excavated headquarters, granaries and baths, preserving the evidence of a substantial Antonine Wall ga…
Fortified place · Roman
East Dunbartonshire
Wilderness Plantation is an Antonine Wall interval fortlet identified from the air and excavated in the 1960s, helping show how the frontier was st…
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