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| REMAINS OF THE WALL OF ANTONINUS PIUSCONSTRUCTED BY LOLLIUS URBICUS. A.D. 140. (ROMAN LEGIONS. II. Vi AND XX.) | Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall Remains of Fosse or Ditch of Roman Wall |
Caledonia Romana Fullarton's Gazetteer New Statistical Account Captain Murray Gartshore William Wallace Esquire of Auchinvole J Duncan Farmer Twechar John Cross Gartshore Dr. [Doctor] Stewart Kirkintilloch James Maitland Wester Shirva James Duncan of Auchindavy James Gillies Whitehills G. Buchanan Hillhead James Turnbull Kirkintilloch N. Marshall Kirkintilloch Estate Map of Gartshore |
024 ; 025 | "For the last two hundred and fifty years the site of the great northern rampart - known as the wall of Antoninus, from its having been constructed in his reign - has commanded the attention of not a few amongst those of our national antiquaries whose ardour led them to penetrate the recesses of the land - *** And seldom since the eye of the inquiring visitant first rested on the dilapidated traces of this ancient barrier, have many years been added in sucession to the "measure" of its age without one accidental circumstance or another exposing to light some fresh memorials of its Roman constructors; whose individual names appear at times before us, in sculpture as fresh as if the work of recent years, while the grandeur of their united labours has crumbled into dust. - This great military work, then, consisted in the first place, of an immense fosse or ditch - averaging about 40 feet in width by some twenty in depth - which extended over hill and plain, in one unbroken line from sea to sea. Behind this ditch, on its southern side, & within a few feet of its edge, was raised a rampart of intermingled stone and earth, strengthened by sods of turf; which measured, it is supposed, about 20 feet in height, and 24 in thickness at the base. This rampart or ager was surmounted by a parapet, behind which ran a level platform for the accomodation of its defenders. To the southward of the whole was situated the Military Way - a regular Causewayed road about 20 feet wide - which kept by the course of the wall at irregular distances, approaching in some places to within a few yards, and in others receding to a considerable extent. Along the entire line, from West Kilpatrick to Carriden, there were established, it is believed, Nineteen principal stations or forts; we cannot be quite certain of the number because, towards the east end of the wall, the traces of their existence have, for two centuries at least, been either very indistinct or entirely obliterated. Calculating by those whose remains have been plainly perceptible, the mean distance between each may be stated at rather more than two English miles. Along these intervals were placed many smaller Castella or Watch-towers of which only some two or three could be observed in the year 1755. While the continuous rampart seems to have been little more than a well-formed earthern mound, it is probable that many |
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