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National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH email: [email protected] www.nms.ac.uk Further reading Callendar House Museum, Callendar Park, Falkirk FK1 1YR email callendar.house@falkirk. gov.uk www.falkirk.gov.uk/cultural Useful addresses Auld Kirk Museum, Cowgate, Kirkintilloch G66 1AB Tel: 0141 578 0144 email: museums@eastdunbarton. gov.uk www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk Kinneil Museum, Kinneil Estate, Bo’ness EH51 0PR Several museums contain artefacts from the Antonine Wall: © RCAHMS
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FRONTIERS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
WORLD HERITAGE SITE
THE ANTONINE
WALL
MuseumsSeveral museums contain artefacts from the Antonine Wall:
Hunterian Museum, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ email: [email protected] www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk
National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH email: [email protected] www.nms.ac.uk
Kinneil Museum, Kinneil Estate, Bo’ness EH51 0PR
Callendar House Museum, Callendar Park, Falkirk FK1 1YR email [email protected] www.falkirk.gov.uk/cultural
Auld Kirk Museum, Cowgate, Kirkintilloch G66 1AB Tel: 0141 578 0144 email: [email protected] www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk
www.antoninewall.org
What does inclusion on the list of World Heritage Sites mean?The legal status of the Antonine Wall does not change. The
archaeological remains of the frontier are already protected
through the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act
1979 and the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997.
The Antonine Wall is protected by buffer zones, mostly
already designated as Green Belt, Countryside Land or Public
Open Space in Council Local Plans. Inclusion on the World
Heritage List is a high accolade, providing international
recognition of the importance of the Antonine Wall. It does
not mean that development cannot take place near the Wall
but that any adverse impact on the Wall, its setting or the
values which contribute to its World Heritage status would
have to be taken into account in determining the application.
Where can I find out more about the Antonine Wall?The document nominating the
Antonine Wall as a World Heritage Site
may be consulted on Historic Scotland’s
website: www.historic-scotland.gov.uk. The
maps identifying all elements of the World
Heritage Site were prepared by the Royal
Commission on the Ancient and Historical
Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS).
They may be consulted at
their office in Edinburgh,
at Historic Scotland, and at
Council planning offices and
libraries along the line of the
Antonine Wall (see Useful
addresses).
Additional information
about the frontier and where
to visit it is available on the
Antonine Wall website:
www.antoninewall.org
and on the Map of the Antonine
Wall (see Further Reading).
Further reading
David J Breeze, The Antonine Wall, The North-West Frontier of the Roman Empire, Proposed as a World Heritage Site (Edinburgh 2004)
David J Breeze, Edge of Empire, Scotland’s Roman Frontier the Antonine Wall (Edinburgh 2008)
Map of the Antonine Wall (RCAHMS, Historic Scotland and the Hunterian Museum, Edinburgh 2008)
Useful addresses
UNESCO, 4 Place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France www.unesco.org
Historic Scotland, Longmore House, Salisbury Place, Edinburgh EH9 1SH www.historic-scotland.gov.uk
RCAHMS, John Sinclair House, 16 Bernard Terrace, Edinburgh EH8 9NX email: [email protected] www.rcahms.gov.uk
East Dunbartonshire Council, Planning, Development and Property Assets, Kirkintilloch Road, Bishopbriggs G64 2TR Tel: 0141 578 8640 email: [email protected] www.eastdunbartonshire.gov.uk
Falkirk Council: Development Services, Abbotsford House, David’s Loan, Bainsford, Falkirk FK2 7YZ Tel. 01324 504950 email: [email protected]
Glasgow City Council, Development and Regeneration Services, 229 George Street, Glasgow G1 1QU email: [email protected] www.glasgow.gov.uk
North Lanarkshire Council, Fleming House, 2 Tryst Road, Cumbernauld G67 1JW email: [email protected] www.northlan.gov.uk
West Dunbartonshire Council, Forward Planning and Regeneration Section, Council Offices, Garshake Road, Dumbarton G82 3PU email: [email protected] www.wdcweb.info
www.antoninewall.org
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NEARLY 2,000 YEARS AGO, the Antonine Wall
was the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire.
In January 2007 a proposal to make it a World
Heritage Site, prepared by officials in Historic Scotland and
supported by the 5 local authorities through which the Wall
runs (East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, Glasgow, North Lanarkshire
and West Dunbartonshire), was submitted to UNESCO. In
July 2008, the World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec
approved it as a World Heritage Site and the Antonine Wall
became part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage
Site alongside Hadrian’s Wall and the German limes.
What was the Antonine Wall?The Antonine Wall was the frontier built
by the Roman army in the years following
AD 140 on the orders of the Emperor
Antoninus Pius. It ran for 40 Roman miles
(60 km) from modern Bo’ness on the
Firth of Forth to Old Kilpatrick on
the River Clyde and consisted
of a turf rampart fronted by a
wide and deep ditch. Forts and
fortlets provided accommodation for the troops based
on the Wall as well as points where the Wall could
be crossed. They were linked by a road, known as
the Military Way. All these elements, together
with the remains of the camps used by the Wall
builders, are included in the World Heritage
Site. The frontier was only occupied for about a
generation before being abandoned in the 160s.
CastlehillCastlehill
Firth of Forth
River Kelvin
River Clyde
CarridenCarriden
SummerstonSummerston
BalmuildyBalmuildyBearsdenBearsden
CleddansCleddans
DuntocherDuntocherBishoptonBishopton
Old KilpatrickOld Kilpatrick
WesterwoodWesterwood
Bar HillBar HillAuchendavyAuchendavy
KirkintillochKirkintilloch
Glasgow BridgeGlasgow BridgeCadderCadder
WildernessPlantationWildernessPlantation
Croy HillCroy Hill
FalkirkFalkirk
Rough CastleRough Castle
SeabegsSeabegs
CastlecaryCastlecary
KinneilKinneilInveravonInveravonMumrillsMumrills
WatlingLodge
WatlingLodge
City of Glasgow
Airdrie
Cumbernauld
Paisley
Dunbarton
Milngavie
Kilsyth
Denny
Bonhill
Bathgate
Linlithgow
Grangemouth
Bo'ness
Armadale
Broxburn
Bannockburn
Coatbridge
LivingstonM7
3
M8
A80
M80
A89
A80
1
M9
A905
A985
M9
M87
6
M8
M80
M8
A8
07
A879
Loch Coulter
Strathblane
LennoxtownMilton of Campsie
DunfermlineValleyfield
National Museum, Edinburgh
M8
Loch Lomond
Kilmacolm
Linwood
A891
A81
A809
A807
A803
A81
1
A813
M8
A8
A82
A8
2
A872
A9
A907
Carron Valley Resr
River Clyde
Bridge of Weir
Erskine
M8
Plains
CaldercruixGlenmavis
CarlstonShieldhill Maddiston
Hunterian Museum
KILPATRICK HILLS
KILSYTH HILLS
CAMPSIE FELLS River Carron
Kincardine
New Road Bridge
A90
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Airth
A88
A904A904
A904
A803
0 10 miles54321
0 20 kms1086421
0 621 4
Roman miles
Military Way
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Fortlet
Antonine Wall
Visible lengths of rampart & ditch
Best Forts
Best Fortlet
Rampart Base
Why is the Antonine Wall special?The Antonine Wall was one of the
many sections of frontier which helped
to protect – and define - the Roman
Empire, one of the greatest states ever
to have existed. It
has a particular
claim to being
special as it was
the most northerly frontier of the
empire and, when it was built, the most
complex frontier ever constructed by
the Romans. It is also a symbol of the
Golden Age of the Roman Empire, a
special period recognised at the time
and, much later, by Edward Gibbon in
his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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