Bearsden, Hutcheson Hill
Distance Slab (Roman)
Site Name Bearsden, Hutcheson Hill
Classification Distance Slab (Roman)
Canmore ID 44512
Site Number NS57SW 11
NGR NS 515 723
NGR Description NS c. 515 723
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44512
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish New Kilpatrick (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS57SW 11 c. 515 723.
A distance slab of the Twentieth Legion was found in the spring of 1865, 3' below the surface when trenching. Buchanan describes the find spot as on the southern slope of Hutcheson Hill, on the slope of the little hill about six yards S of the line of the Antonine Wall. It can be deduced that the "southern slope" of Hutcheson Hill can only mean that part which looks down on Cleddans, and the lower of the two fields lying on this slope is a fit subject for drainage operations such as those which led to the discovery of the slab (Macdonald 1934).
Measuring 2'10" x 2'2", its inscription, a duplicate of that on the slab described on NS57SW 2 reads: "IMP.C.T.AEL.HADRIANO.ANTONINO.AUG.PIO.P. P.VEX.LEG.XX.VV...FEC.P.P. III". Its design is comparable with one of the slabs found near the Dalnottar Burn (NS47SE 19). The slab was sent to the Chicago Museum, where it was destroyed in the fire of 1871. Only a cast (in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow) is preserved.
G Macdonald 1934; J Buchanan 1883; J Macdonald 1897.
The description given above agrees with the ground topography, and the findspot has been sited to the area centred NS 5151 7236 from that description.
Visited by OS (F D C) 28 September 1951.
Artefact Recovery (1865)
NS57SW 11 c. 515 723.
A distance slab of the Twentieth Legion was found in the spring of 1865, 3' below the surface when trenching. Buchanan describes the find spot as on the southern slope of Hutcheson Hill, on the slope of the little hill about six yards S of the line of the Antonine Wall. It can be deduced that the "southern slope" of Hutcheson Hill can only mean that part which looks down on Cleddans, and the lower of the two fields lying on this slope is a fit subject for drainage operations such as those which led to the discovery of the slab (Macdonald 1934).
Measuring 2'10" x 2'2", its inscription, a duplicate of that on the slab described on NS 57 SW 2 reads: "IMP.C.T.AEL.HADRIANO.ANTONINO.AUG.PIO.P. P.VEX.LEG.XX.VV...FEC.P.P. III". Its design is comparable with one of the slabs found near the Dalnottar Burn (NS47SE 19). The slab was sent to the Chicago Museum, where it was destroyed in the fire of 1871. Only a cast (in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow) is preserved.
G Macdonald 1934; J Buchanan 1883; J Macdonald 1897.
Field Visit (28 September 1951)
The description given above agrees with the ground topography, and the findspot has been sited to the area centred NS 5151 7236 from that description.
Visited by OS (F D C) 28 September 1951.
