Oblique aerial view.
SC 354130
Description Oblique aerial view.
Date 1978
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 354130
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DB 924
Scope and Content Roman fort and fortlet at Duntocher, West Dumbartonshire 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. At Duntocher, a fortlet was built on the summit of Golden Hill (seen here under excavation) and at a later date in the building of the wall a small fort was built adjacent to it when the wall was constructed. 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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