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The Antonine Wall

Rough Castle, near Falkirk

Rome's most northerly frontier, a turf wall across Scotland.

Twenty years after Hadrian's Wall, the Emperor Antoninus Pius pushed the frontier north and built a new wall of turf across central Scotland, from the Forth to the Clyde. It was abandoned after only about twenty years.

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When
Built AD 142
Where
55.9980, -3.8500
Group
Roman Britain

Visiting

Free to visit. Rough Castle is near the Falkirk Wheel.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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