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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Wall of Antoninus Pius Antoninus's Wall in Graham's Dyke
Antoninus's Wall in Graham's Dyke
Antoninus's Wall in Graham's Dyke
Antoninus's Wall in Graham's Dyke
Antoninus's Wall in Graham's Dyke
Antoninus's Wall in Graham's Dyke
Grime's Dyke
Grime's Dyke
Grime's Dyke
Graham's Dyke
Graham's Dike
Revd. [Reverend] William Begg
Mr Alexander Black
William Forbes Esqr.
Gazeteer of Scotland 1842
Nimmo's history of Stirling 1817,
Chambers's Encyclopedia 1859,
Heading of Plan in General Roy's Military Antiquities of Scotland
Heading of description in General Roy's Military Antiquities of Scotland
Name given throughout the description in General Roy's Military Antiquities of Scotland
Statistical Account of Falkirk
Statistical Account of Polmont
031 So called from having been constructed during the reign of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius. "The wall or rampart extended from Caeridden on the Firth of Forth to Dunglass on the Clyde, and is 36 miles 620 yards long. This rampart, which was of earth, and rested on a stone foundation, was upwards of 20 feet high, and 24 feet thick. Along the whole extent of the wall there was a vast ditch praetentura on the outward or N [North] side, which was generally 20 feet deep & 40 feet wide, and which, there is reason to believe, might be filled with water when occasion required. This ditch & rampart were strengthened at both ends and throughout its whole extent, by one and twenty forts, there being at each extremity, and the remainder placed between, at the distance of 3554½ yards or something more than 2 English miles from one another, and it has been clearly ascertained that these stations were designedly placed on the previous fortifications of Agricola. Its necessary appendage, a military road, ran behind the rampart from end to end, for the use of the troops, and for keeping up the usual communication between the stations or forts. From inscriptions on some of the foundation stones which have been dug up, it

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