Roman camp's occupiers may have built the Antonine Wall

Scotsman ^ | Friday the 13th, April 2007 | unattributed

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Archaeologists have found a camp thought to have been built to accommodate Roman construction workers who constructed the Antonine Wall. It was discovered in a dig following the demolition of the former OKI factory at Tollpark, near Castlecary, North Lanarkshire. Ross White of CFA Archaeology said the rectangular camp's outline was first identified in cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in the late 1940s, before the development of the area. The camp was situated about 400 metres south of the Antonine Wall and midway between the Roman forts at Westerwood and Castlecary... Construction of the Antonine Wall began in 142, during the reign of Antoninus Pius. It stretches 37 miles from Old Kilpatrick in West Dunbartonshire on the Firth of Clyde to Bo'ness, Falkirk, on the Firth of Forth. The wall was intended to replace the superior Hadrian's Wall, 100 miles south.

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Roman legionary soldiers of the Twentieth Legion erected this sandstone distance slab at Hutcheson Hill after they had built part of the Antonine Wall in Scotland. The Wall and forts were built and used between AD 139 –161. [The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery]

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How We Loved The Romans (Scotland Celts)
Sunday Herald | 10-28-2002 | Juliette Garside
Posted on 10/27/2002 7:36:00 PM EST by blam
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World Heritage bid hope for wall [ Antonine Wall in Scotland ]
BBC | Tuesday, 20 June 2006 | unattributed
Posted on 06/21/2006 1:57:58 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
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