There were three legions involved: II Augusta (Second Augustan), VI Victrix (Sixth Victorious), and XX Valeria Victrix (Twentieth Valiant and Victorious). These slabs commemorate the lengths of sections constructed by the legions of the Roman army that were involved in building the wall. This Gallery includes photographs of distance slabs, or building records, now housed at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. However, once completed in 142 CE it was only in use for around 20 years, after which the Roman army demolished the forts and returned to Hadrian’s Wall. Kim Traynor: A section of the Antonine Wall at Rough Castle near Falkirk, showing the vallum CC BY-SA 3.0 It comprised a stone footing with a rampart of turf, and incorporated around 19 forts at intervals of about 2 miles (3km). NormanEinstein: Map showing locations of Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall, CC BY-SA 3.0 This ran between the Firth of Clyde in the west and the Firth of Forth in the east. But there was, for a short time, a boundary further north: the Antonine Wall, now a World Heritage Site. PaulT: Antonine Wall west of Bonnybridge CC BY-SA 4.0Īsk most people what the northernmost frontier of Roman Britain was, and they would probably say it was Hadrian’s Wall.
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