Oblique aerial view.
SC 1724922
Description Oblique aerial view.
Date 29/1/1982
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 1724922
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of LA 3374
Scope and Content Antonine Wall, Easter Balmuildy, Lanarkshire The Antonine Wall stretched from the Clyde in the west to the Forth in the east. The Wall was a linear boundary designed to control access to southern Scotland. Seventeen forts were built along its length, interspersed with fortlets and signal stations. The Antonine Wall was built of turf on a stone base with a broad and deep ditch in front of the rampart. It is this ditch which is often the only surviving part of the wall. At Easter Balmuildy the ditch is clearly visible in this aerial view. By order of the Emperor, Antoninus Pius, soldiers from the three legions of Britain (II Augusta from Caerleon, VI Victrix from York and XX Valeria Victrix) built the wall following a successful campaign by the governor of Britain, Lollius Urbicus. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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