Ancient tree · Medieval
Wallace Oak (Torwood)
Falkirk
The lost Wallace Oak shows how a woodland landmark became a national relic, its unproven Wallace tradition driving souvenir cutting and an unusuall…
- Near Falkirk
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in Falkirk
12 places in Falkirk, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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Fortified place · Roman
Antonine Wall: Rough Castle
Falkirk
Rough Castle is one of the best-preserved forts on the Antonine Wall, retaining the defensive landscape of Rome’s short-lived northern frontier and…
- Near Bonnybridge
- 15 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Tappoch Broch
Falkirk
Tappoch Broch is a scheduled stone tower dating from from about 800 BC until the Romans came, whose surviving chamber, staircase and recent conserv…
- Near Torwood
- 20 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Blackness Castle
Falkirk
Blackness Castle is a Firth of Forth fortress transformed from Crichton residence and state prison into an advanced artillery work, prison and ammu…
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Fortified place · Roman
Castlecary Roman fort
Falkirk
Castlecary Roman Fort anchors an Antonine Wall landscape where archaeological finds: altars, a bathhouse, children’s shoes and military inscription…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Inveravon
Falkirk
Inveravon is one of the Antonine Wall’s most uncertain fort sites, where limited excavation, geophysics and aerial photography reveal faint foundat…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Mumrills
Falkirk
Mumrills was the largest Roman fort on the Antonine Wall, with excavated defences and a rich group of altars, funerary evidence and everyday finds…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Seabegs Wood
Falkirk
Seabegs Wood preserves a fortlet on the Antonine Wall, with excavated rampart (a defensive bank of earth or stone) foundations and a position betwe…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Watling Lodge
Falkirk
Watling Lodge contains a notably well-preserved stretch of Antonine Wall ditch, showing the frontier’s local defensive landscape between the Roman…
- Some walking
More places in Falkirk
Briefer entries: recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, High Street, Airth
Falkirk
Airth Mercat Cross is a 1697 market marker in the High Street, protected through Category A listing after its former scheduled-monument designation…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bridgeness Slab
Falkirk
The Bridgeness Slab is the most detailed surviving Antonine Wall distance slab, combining a precise construction record with vivid Roman imagery of…
- Easy path
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