Field Visit
Date 29 October 1958
Event ID 1111428
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1111428
NS87NE 862 798 (unnoted)
Roman Fortlet, Wading Lodge (Site).
At the villa known as Watling Lodge, roughly half-way between nthe forts at Falkirk and Rough Castle,a gap in the Antonine Wall gave passage to the main Roman road that led to Camelon and beyond. Protecting the gap there was a small fort or block-house which was discovered in 1894 but is now completely buried beneath the garden of the villa. It was attached to the S. side of the Antonine Rampart, and appears to have measured about 130 ft. from E. to W. by about 100 ft. from N. to S. within a rampart which had a stone foundation some 15ft. in thickness (1). Similar fortlets have since been found elsewhere on the Wall, and it may well be that the series extended, at regular intervals, for the whole length of the barrier (RCAHMS 1963, Introduction, p. 34).
RCAHMS 1963, visited 29 October 1958.
(1) RWS, 344-5 and fig. 51.
