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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| REMAINS OF THE WALL OF ANTONINUS PIUS | The authorities [--] the Caledonian Wall [--] met with in the writings of the ancients are very limited in number and on that account the few we have may be considered to be valuable. The only Roman historian who refers to its original construction is Julius Capitolinus who flourished towards the middle of the 3rd century. In his life of Antoninius Pius he states, after [criticising ?] some other wars carried on by his Lieutenants that the Emperor subdued the Britons by means of his Legate Collius Hibicus, and [because ?] the barbarians to a greater distance by building another "Ispititical ?" wall across the Island. It is significant that Antoninius after Capitolinius wrote his history, this portion of his statement should be confirmed in a great measure, by the discovery along the track of that wall, of vestiges of an inscription having all the essential parts of --icus name - a name omitted by all but one of the "Scriptores Historie Auguste". This fragment was disinterred at or near Bewslie about 150 years ago and apparently found part of a votive tablet. The stone measures 17 by 10 inches and bears the following inscription P.LEG.II.A Posuit legio secunda Augusta Q.LOLLIO.VR Queiste Lollio Urbico LEG.AVG.PR.PR Legate Auguste Propretora Here is an unquestionable confirmation if such were still required that the wall which extended between the Rivers Forth and Clyde was that alluded to by Capitolinus. Antonine assured the people on the death of Adrian the 10 July A.D.138 always a [--] other good [--] the new Emperor was responsible for appropriating to the Government of the Roman Provinces the fittest officers, nor could he have chosen for the rule of Britain a more proper officer than Collius Hibicus, a man who possesses talent for peace as well as [--] for war, who most all attention was called to the Brigantes who having [raised a castle ?] were again reduced to order by him in 139 AD. He marched northward in the subsequent [--] to the Friths [t--] the tribes beyond there. This Rampart, this vast ditch, and this Military Road which accompanied both in the rearward, were constructed in the year 140AD along the course of the Stoctius which had been established AD.81. by the judicious policy of Agricola. The Second Legion, detachments from the Sixth and Twentieth legions with some auxiliaries were recorded in monumental stone to have performed those military works. The length of their [--] from Old Kilpatrick on the Clyde to Caerriden on the Forth is 39726 Roman paces (as so recorded) or about 40 Roman miles or 37 English miles. There were 19 Stations along the wall from Antoninus Potenturae [?] exclusive of the fortified posts at Caerleon and Dunglas 91 3/4 miles beyond Old Kilpatrick [--] Row went on to [--] and became [?] |
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| REMAINS OF THE WALL OF ANTONINUS PIUS | The authorities [--] the Caledonian Wall [--] met with in the writings of the ancients are very limited in number and on that account the few we have may be considered to be valuable. The only Roman historian who refers to its original construction is Julius Capitolinus who flourished towards the middle of the 3rd century. In his life of Antoninius Pius he states, after [criticising ?] some other wars carried on by his Lieutenants that the Emperor subdued the Britons by means of his Legate Collius Hibicus, and [because ?] the barbarians to a greater distance by building another "Ispititical ?" wall across the Island. It is significant that Antoninius after Capitolinius wrote his history, this portion of his statement should be confirmed in a great measure, by the discovery along the track of that wall, of vestiges of an inscription having all the essential parts of --icus name - a name omitted by all but one of the "Scriptores Historie Auguste". This fragment was disinterred at or near Bewslie about 150 years ago and apparently found part of a votive tablet. The stone measures 17 by 10 inches and bears the following inscription P.LEG.II.A Posuit legio secunda Augusta Q.LOLLIO.VR Queiste Lollio Urbico LEG.AVG.PR.PR Legate Auguste Propretora Here is an unquestionable confirmation if such were still required that the wall which extended between the Rivers Forth and Clyde was that alluded to by Capitolinus. Antonine assured the people on the death of Adrian the 10 July A.D.138 always a [--] other good [--] the new Emperor was responsible for appropriating to the Government of the Roman Provinces the fittest officers, nor could he have chosen for the rule of Britain a more proper officer than Collius Hibicus, a man who possesses talent for peace as well as [--] for war, who most all attention was called to the Brigantes who having [raised a castle ?] were again reduced to order by him in 139 AD. He marched northward in the subsequent [--] to the Friths [t--] the tribes beyond there. This Rampart, this vast ditch, and this Military Road which accompanied both in the rearward, were constructed in the year 140AD along the course of the Stoctius which had been established AD.81. by the judicious policy of Agricola. The Second Legion, detachments from the Sixth and Twentieth legions with some auxiliaries were recorded in monumental stone to have performed those military works. The length of their [--] from Old Kilpatrick on the Clyde to Caerriden on the Forth is 39726 Roman paces (as so recorded) or about 40 Roman miles or 37 English miles. There were 19 Stations along the wall from [--] have succumbed even to Kelvin [?] From consideration of the shallow and fordable character of the Clyde at that time it is apparent that the Romans [?] must have carried their posts and their military road to Dumbarton the Thedosiae of Dickiel [?] Bede in [--] seems to have given the Roman [--] the full [--]. Camden concurred in this by placing the wall between [--] and Dumbarton. Calculating from the stations whose remains have been plainly perceptible, the [--] [--] as between each from Old Kilpatrick to Caerriden may be stated to rather more than 2 English miles. Along these [--]were placed many Castles or Watch Towers of which only one or two were visible [?] in 1755 |
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15 [right corner of header]County of Lanark Ph [Parish] of Cadder [in header]
constructed Collius Hibicus AD140.
adjoins II.VI. & XX
Descriptive remarks compiled [--] Roy's Military Antiquities, Chalmers Caledonia & Caledonia Demond [?]
JH Croft [?] R.E. [Royal Engineers][Name column]
Made of turf & earth of other materials thrown promiscuously from the [--] [inserted sideways and apparently intended as the meaning of word transcribed as "Ispititical" in Description]
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