Historical Narrative 02

Antonine Wall

Scotland lay as the Northwest frontier of the Roman empire The Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius ordered the building of his Antonine Wall in AD 140 to bring some order to that troubled outpost of the empire. Building actually started around AD 142 and is thought to have taken six years to complete. Running from east to west, and stretching some 37 miles long from modern Bo’ness on the Firth of Forth to Old Kilpatrick on the River Clyde, the wall marked the extent of the Roman military advance northwards. A part of the Antonine Wall ran through Maryhill, in the Maryhill Park area, although none of the wall can be seen in maryhill today there are still ruins of a Roman fort which adjoined the wall in Bearsden. (En.wikipedia.org, 2019)

Antonine wall and the Fourth & Canal