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[Brief Account of Antiquities Continued]

accommodation of the troops who defended it. From the Roman
Station at Cramond a Roman road proceeded westward along
the Shore of the Forth to Carriden, crossing the Avon it entered
Linlithgowshire and passing thence by Barnbougle Hill it crossed
Echlin Moor where its remains plainly appear and proceeded
forward to the end of the wall. The Romans appear to have had
several small posts along the shore of the Forth. from Carriden
to Cramond and Gildas and Bede our oldest antiquaries
clearly evince. One of these is supposed to have occupied the site of
the old Castle of Abercorn. At some distance eastward from
Abercorn there are the vestiges of a small Roman Camp at
a Windmill which belonged to Dundas of Manor. Thus the
remains seem to confirm the intimations of those early antiquaries
who speak of the Roman towers along the bank of the Forth. -- Chalmers Caledonia

(9) "On Echline Moor a moor no longer but now a thorough
drained farm there have been several Roman coins found. A
Silver Coin of Hadrian of the thickness of half a crown was
found by a labourer several years ago on the line of the old Roman
Iter it is in beautiful preservation. Also a Roman penny
of the Empress Faustina and one of Antoninus Pius found
in the neighbourhood" -- Summer Life on Land and Water by Fyfe.

[Note] -- See remark relating to the finding of Roman coins in a sheet lately sent to you.

The principal antiquities in Abercorn are, The Roman Wall, & Road, the
Monastery, and the Castle, with respect to the first though someti [sometime]
termed the wall of Abercorn it has been established on the autho [authority]
of the venerable Bede that it never reached to Abercorn but
commenced at a place called Pinnahuel which we must say
has been with great probability identified with Blackness
Point at the distance of two miles to the west of Abercorn. Bede
alone has also repeatedly mentioned the monastery of Abercorn
which may with propriety be supposed to have occupied the
Site of the present church etc. etc. It however has been conjectured
that the neighbouring places Called Priestinch, Priests Folly and
St. Serf's Law take their names from the days of this

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