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Boat trips on The Falkirk Wheel have had an electrifying makeover adding even more green credentials to the top tourist ...
A unique trail has inspired two in every five tourists to visit one of Scotland’s designated Unesco sites, new findings have ...
The Antonine Wall wasn't as long as Hadrian's 84-mile-long (135 km) wall, but it was still substantial, running almost 40 miles (64 km), from east to west between two deep river estuaries, or ...
Antonine's Wall stretched between Forth and the Clyde and passed through five counties. It is older and further north than the famed Hadrian's wall. It was known to the Romans at the time as ...
The Antonine Wall’s Roman history was rather short-lived. Antoninus Pius died in AD 161 and within a few years the Antonine Wall was abandoned as the Romans retreated to Hadrian’s Wall.
A 2,000-year-old Roman fortlet along the Antonine Wall was discovered in an “unassuming” Scottish field near a primary school, experts said.
Patricia Weeks, Antonine Wall Co-ordinator at HES, said: "We are delighted to have been able to fund Dr. Campbell's work and to see these exciting results emerge.
One section of Antonine’s Wall today. It was built across central Scotland by the Romans as the northern boundary of their empire. (iStock) Perspective by Erica X Eisen The ruins of the Roman ...
From maps I could see the line of the Antonine Wall was clearly marked. I was also lucky enough to obtain advice from David Crone, a teacher who had dressed up as a Roman soldier and completed the ...
Britain has nominated the Antonine Wall in Scotland, the furthest northwest boundary of the Roman Empire, as a World Heritage Site, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said on Tuesday.
In The Antonine Wall, David J. Breeze, author of a number of books on Roman Britain, takes a comprehensive look at Rome's northern frontier and this rather enigmatic defensive line. He provides an ...