Bearsden Roman Bath House on the Antonine Wall
This very well preserved Roman Bath House complex served the troops at the nearby Bearsden Fort on the 37 mile long Antonine Wall from around AD 142 to AD 165. It had hypocausts, a sauna and a hot water pool as well as a cold water bath, changing rooms, etc.
Antonine Wall Archaeology: Bearsden head
A sandstone head of a Roman goddess, found during removal of debris from the cold plunge bath at Bearsden fort bathhouse. It is 17 cm high by 11 cm wide. It probably derives from a bust or statue of about half life-size. The carving incorporates many Celtic elements, such as the down-turned lips and the lentoid eyes, and was doubtless made by a local craftsman. The head has sometimes been identified as Fortuna, Good Fortune, often venerated in military bath-houses by soldiers of the Roman army.
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Antonine Wall, New Kilpatrick Cemetery, Bearsden, Glasgow.
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Antonine Wall
New Kilpatrick Cemetery
Bearsden
Glasgow
Scotland
In a grave yard in north west Glasgow, we can visit a small two part section of the most complex and monumental construction work by the Romans nearly two millennia ago. This was the Roman army’s last linear frontier and was in use for around twenty years, then abandoned in the 160’s AD.
The Antonine Wall runs for 37 miles from Old Kilpatrick to Bo’ness on Scotland’s central belt. This site is not as well known as Hadrians Wall which divide’s Scotland and England. The Antonine Wall received World Heritage Status in 2008. This was the Empires north western frontier, built in the years after 140AD.
The wall consisted of a rampart made of turf that was between three to four meters high, this sat on a stone base possibly with a wooden fence structure on top and a deep and wide ditch.
Forts, along the Antonine Wall were for secure crossing points and soldiers living quarters along with beacon-platforms and fort-lets. All of these constructs were linked by the military way road which ran behind the rampart.
The second section lies beyond the top of the rise and is similar to the first section at the same width. Both sections would have been covered by a turf rampart between three and four meters high.
This first part is on a slope, you can clearly see the stone base which is around 4.5m wide (roughly 15 Roman feet) with a drain crossing the cobbled base.
These small part’s of the Antonine wall can be visited in New Kilpatrick Cemetery on the B8049 on Boclair Road in Bearsden, Glasgow. The site is a short walk from Hillfoot train station and the Bearsden Roman Bath House is about a one mile walk.
A BIG thanks to our ancient ancestors.
The Antonine Wall in Scotland (en)
The Antonine Wall in Scotland is the northernmost frontier monument of the Roman Empire. In 2008 this archaeological monument became UNESCO World Heritage Site. This video was created 2007 within the framework of the European project Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Culture 2000 program). Author: Boundary Productions.
Roman Baths at Bearsden, Scotland
Connected to a fort on the 2nd century AD Antonine Wall.
Roughcastle Fort and the Antonine Wall, Falkirk
Roughcastle was the second smallest of 19 forts on the Antonine wall built around AD 143, however it is the best preserved and includes an impressive section of the defensive ditch.
Ancient Roman Baths Bearsden Glasgow
Buddy Schnaber continues his unique look at History, this time visiting an Ancient Roman Bath House located just outside Glasgow near the Antonine Wall. The Antonine Wall being the furthest Roman Frontier of the Empire.
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The Antonine Wall, Scotland. Full tour of the Roman Wall.
You will have heard of Hadrian’s Wall, which the Romans built at the northern boundary of the Roman Empire, but you may not be aware that they built a second wall further north, the Antonine Wall, after they had invaded Scotland. It extended over 37 miles from the Clyde to the Forth. I walked the best preserved and most scenic parts of the wall between Kirkintilloch and Falkirk and visited the remaining sites by car. This film shows what remains of the wall today.
The wall was built between AD 142-3 under the orders of Emperor Antonius Pius and was occupied by the Romans for at least 20 years. It was built from turf and timber and consisted of a rampart up to 12 feet tall. An example of a reconstructed Roman turf and timber fort can be visited is at Lunt Fort, Bagington, England.
From the West coast the wall started in Old Kilpatrick but I start my tour in Glasgow where there is an outstanding collection of finds from along the wall. The places shown in the film are listed below:
0:00:41 - The Hunterian Museum, Glasgow - Largest collection of finds from the wall inc sculptures and milestones.
0:01:25 - Golden Hill Park, Duntocher – Traces of the wall’s stone base. Nothing remains of the fort, butbthe outline is marked in the grass. Small car park – Post code G81 6AR.
0:01:57 - Ian Road, Bearsden – Remains of rampart base can be seen. On street parking available, Post code G81 6AR.
0:02:17 - Roman Bath House, Roman Rd, Bearsden – Best preserved remains along the wall, inc bath house and latrine. On street parking in Grange Rd G61 2QP.
0:03:43 - New Kilpatrick Cemetery, Bearsden – Best preserved sections of wall’s stone base. Limited parking. Post code G61 2BG.
0:04:20 - Auld Kirk Museum – Next to Peel Park. A little gem of a museum with section dedicated to Antonine Wall. Free entry.
0:04:58 - Peel Park, Kirkintilloch – Nothing remains of the fort. Plaques and information boards. On street parking and a car park nearby, Post code G66 1HN.
0:05:24 - Bar Hill Roman Fort, Twechar - Scenic and impressive location, remains of the walls of the principia and bath house. Traces of fort’s rampart and ditches visible.
0:06:26 - Castle Hill Ditch - A dramatic and spectacular section of the wall’s ditch.
0:07:12 - Croy Hill Fort and ditch. No visible remains of the fort. Some dramatic sections of the ditch on the climb to Croy hill.
0:07:40 - East Dullatur - There are some well-preserved sections of the ditch here.
0:08:37 - Tollpark - A very scenic stretch of the ditch through a belt of trees.
0:08:59 - CastleCary Roman Fort - The east boundary wall and foundations of the Headquarter’s building are still visible.
0:09:30 - Seabegs Wood - A scenic and well-preserved section of the rampart, ditch and military way.
0:10:01 - Rough Castle Fort and ditch - A dramatic location, well preserved section of the wall’s ditch, lilia, defensive ramparts of the fort and annexe.
0:12:01 - Bantaskin ditch - A well-preserved stretch of the ditch.
0:12:25 - Tamfourhill Road - Along this road there are glimpses of the ditch, overgrown and not well cared for.
0:12:35 - Watling Lodge - An impressive and well-preserved stretch of the ditch.
0:13:05 - Callendar Wood - Well cared for stretch of the ditch at the north of the wood. Callendar House contains an Antonine Wall gallery.
0:13:26 - Polmont Wood - Views of the ditch deeper in the wood after climbing some steps. Sat nav use Millhall Gardens, FK2 0XH is next to car park entrance.
0:14:08 - Kinneil Roman Fortlet - Most easterly remains of the wall located in a scenic park. A museum contains some finds.
0:15:06 - Bo’ness – replica of the distance slab - A replica of the distance slab that marked the end of the Antonine Wall. On street parking available, in Harbour Road, EH51 9LF.
0:15:28 - Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh - Exceptional museum, extensive display of Roman finds Level -1 Roman occupation of Scotland.
Music credits:The Awakening by Patrick Patrikios;
Distant Lands by Hanu Dixit; Realization by Hanu Dixit
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Roman Antonine Wall Across Scotland
Slideshow of aspects of the Roman wall built across central Scotland, now a World Heritage Site. Includes graphics of Bar Castle, Kinneil Fort & Bearsden Bath House.
Old Photographs Of Maryhill Glasgow Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Maryhill, Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc Mhoire, an area of the City of Glasgow. Hew Hill, the Laird, or Lord, of Gairbraid, had no male heir and so he left his estate to his daughter, Mary Hill, born 1730, died 1809. She married Robert Graham of Dawsholm in 1763, but they had no income from trade or commerce and had to make what they could from the estate, but on 8 March 1768 Parliament approved the cutting of the Forth and Clyde Canal through their estate, which provided some much-needed money. The canal reached the estate in 1775. Later Five locks, the great Kelvin Aqueduct and, between two of the locks, a dry dock boatyard were built. A village too began to grow up and the Grahams fed more land for its development; Robert Graham attached one condition that was to immortalise the heiress of Gairbraid, his beloved wife and the last in line of centuries of Hills of Gairbraid after the death of her father Hew Hill. The then village was to be in all times called the town of MaryHill. In 1856 Maryhill became a burgh in its own right. It was later absorbed into the boundaries of the city of Glasgow in 1891. A part of the Antonine Wall runs through Maryhill, in the Maryhill Park area, where there is the site of a Roman fort adjoining the wall in nearby Bearsden. A Roman bath-house may still be seen there. Maryhill Barracks were opened as Garrioch Barracks in 1872. Built to accommodate an infantry regiment, a squadron of cavalry and a battery of field artillery, it dominated the area which is now the Wyndford housing estate. The barracks replaced the previous Infantry Barracks at Duke Street in the East End of the city, which dated from 1795. Maryhill Barracks became the depot of the Highland Light Infantry, City of Glasgow regiment after the Childers Reforms of 1881. During the 1919 general strike in Glasgow, the soldiers at Maryhill Barracks were deemed to be unreliable and were confined to barracks while troops from elsewhere were brought in to impose order. It was in 1919 that Maryhill Barracks was used as a marshalling place for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders before embarking for India. It was also home to the Scots Greys and famously held Adolf Hitler's second-in-command Rudolf Hess during World War II after his supposed Peace flight to the UK in 1941, at a time when it was used as a prisoner of war camp. In 1942, the Free French leader, General Charles de Gaulle, visited French troops there. The Barracks were decommissioned and largely demolished in the early 1960s.
Antonine Wall at Barr Hill, Scotland
This is one of the best preserved sections of the Antonine Wall on the approach to Barr Hill Roman Fort.
The Vallum Antonini, Grymisdyke, and the Antonine Wall
The Antonine Wall is the remains of imperial Rome’s north-west frontier in central Scotland and part of the multi-national Frontiers of the Roman Empire UNESCO World Heritage Site. Although the Wall has a lower popular profile than its counterparts in England and Germany, it has nevertheless been the object of significant study, with a research tradition that has resulted in a number of syntheses. These focus on its initial period of construction, functional operation, and abandonment, as well as the unique characteristics that make it ‘the most complex and highly developed of all frontiers constructed by the Roman army.’ This paper looks beyond the period and themes that have characterised the Wall’s research tradition, and situates it within recent discourse on the afterlife of frontiers: an agenda that has been particularly pursued for Hadrian’s Wall. It is argued that traditional research artificially elides time between the present of modern investigation and the past of the Roman period, leaving the intervening post-Roman centuries comparatively unexplored and absent from academic discourse and public presentations of contemporary significance. A new diachronic framework is proposed that accommodates both traditional Roman frontier concerns and emergent themes from new investigation of the Wall’s wider biography.
Darrell J. Rohl (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Roman Baths At Bearsden
Take a walk through the remains of the Roman bath-house at Bearsden, a fort on the Antonine Wall. The wall was built, mainly from turf, across Scotland from the Forth to the Clyde around AD 140.
Roman Bath Bearsden Feb 19
The Antonine Wall
An imaginary documentary about the Antonine Wall.
A discussion at the Antonine Wall. Scotland. March 29th 2016.
With:
Sally Evans, poet and bookseller
Kings Bookshop
Callander
@sallyevanz1
Laura Guthrie, emergent writer and PhD (Creative Writing) candidate (University of Glasgow)
@catherinespark
Georgi Gill
Scottish Poetry Library
@ByLeavesWeLive
@georgi_gill
Recorded for the Out of Bounds poetry project tour.
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The History Hut: Romans in Scotland Pt. 3
Barr Hill Roman Fort, Antonine Wall, Scotland
This is the highest fort on the line of the Wall and coveed an area of some 3.2 acres.The Military Way passed between the fort and the Wall.The fort contained a HQ building, granaries,bathhouse and barrack blocks, Inscriptions indicate the fort was variously garrisoned by units from Syria and Germany.