Antonine Wall
The Antonine Wall was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland, between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Ruin
- Description: defensive fortification in Roman Britain
- Also known as: “Graham’s Dyke”, “Severan Wall”, and “Wall of Antoninus”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bar Hill Fort and Broadwood Stadium.
Bar Hill Fort
Archaeological site
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Bar Hill Fort was a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. It was built around the year 142 CE. Older maps and documents sometimes spell the name as Barr Hill. Bar Hill Fort is situated 3,000 feet south of Antonine Wall.
Broadwood Stadium
Stadium
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Broadwood Stadium is a multi-use community stadium and sports complex in the Westfield area of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire. The stadium is currently the home of Scottish League One side Hamilton Academical, as well as Cumbernauld Colts of the Scottish Lowland Football League, and Rangers W.F.C of the Scottish Women's Premier League. Broadwood Stadium is situated 2 miles southeast of Antonine Wall.
Croy railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Croy railway station serves the village of Croy – as well as the nearby town of Kilsyth and parts of Cumbernauld – in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located on the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line, 11+1⁄2 miles northeast of Glasgow Queen Street. Croy railway station is situated 1½ miles southeast of Antonine Wall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilsyth and Croy.
Kilsyth
Photo: Excalibur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kilsyth is a town on Clydeside, historically part of Lanarkshire, in the Central Belt of Scotland. It's 15 miles northeast of Glasgow near the watershed between the Clyde and Forth river catchments, at a point where the natural lowland routes become pinched between the Lanarkshire moors, the abrupt Campsie Fells, and sucking bogs.
Croy
Village
Croy is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. A former mining community, Croy is situated south of Kilsyth and north of Cumbernauld, some 13 miles from Glasgow and 37 miles from Edinburgh on the main railway line between the two cities.
Twechar
Village
Photo: G Laird, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Twechar is a small former mining village historically in Dunbartonshire and administered by the council area of East Dunbartonshire, Scotland close to the boundary with North Lanarkshire.
Antonine Wall
- Categories: Roman limes, defensive wall, defense line, Roman archaeological site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Antonine Wall” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الجدار الأنطوني”
- Basque: “Antoninoren Harresia”
- Belarusian: “Вал Антаніна”
- Breton: “Moger Antoninus”
- Bulgarian: “Антонинов вал”
- Bulgarian: “Антониновия вал”
- Catalan: “Mur d’Antoní”
- Chinese: “安东尼墙”
- Chinese: “安多宁长城”
- Chinese: “安多寧長城”
- Chinese: “安敦長城”
- Croatian: “Antoninov zid”
- Czech: “Antoninův val”
- Czech: “Antoniův val”
- Czech: “Severův val”
- Danish: “Antoninus-muren”
- Danish: “Antoninusmuren”
- Dutch: “Antonijnse Muur”
- Dutch: “Antonine Wall”
- Dutch: “Muur van Antoninus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الجدار الانطونى”
- Esperanto: “Antonina Muro”
- Esperanto: “Muro de Antonino”
- Estonian: “Antoninuse vall”
- Finnish: “Antoninuksen muuri”
- Finnish: “Antoninuksen valli”
- Finnish: “Antoniuksen muuri”
- Finnish: “Antoniuksen valli”
- French: “mur d’Antonin”
- French: “Mur d’Antonin”
- Galician: “Muralla de Antonino”
- Georgian: “ანტონინეს კედელი”
- German: “Antoninuswall”
- German: “Vallum Antonini”
- Hebrew: “חומת אנטונינוס”
- Hungarian: “Antoninus fala”
- Irish: “Balla Antonine”
- Italian: “Vallo Antonino”
- Italian: “Vallo di Antonino”
- Italian: “Vallo di Antonio Pio”
- Japanese: “アントニヌスの城壁”
- Japanese: “アントニヌスの長城”
- Korean: “안토니누스 방벽”
- Latin: “Vallum Antonini”
- Latvian: “Antonija valnis”
- Lithuanian: “Antonino siena”
- Macedonian: “Антониев ѕид”
- Macedonian: “Антонинов ѕид”
- Malayalam: “Antonine Wall”
- Malayalam: “അന്റോണൈൻ കോട്ട”
- Mongolian: “Антонины хана”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Antoninske mur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den antoninske mur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den antoninske muren”
- Norwegian: “Den antoninske mur”
- Persian: “دیوار آنتونین”
- Polish: “Mur Antonina”
- Polish: “Mur Antoninusa”
- Polish: “Wał Antonina”
- Portuguese: “Muralha de Antonino”
- Romanian: “Zidul lui Antoninus”
- Russian: “Антонинов вал”
- Russian: “Вал Антонина Пия”
- Russian: “Вал Антонина”
- Russian: “Стена Антонина”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Balla Antonine”
- Serbian: “Antoninov zid”
- Serbian: “Антонинов зид”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Antoninov zid”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Antoninski zid”
- Slovenian: “Antoninov zid”
- Spanish: “Muralla de Antonino Pio”
- Spanish: “Muralla de Antonino Pío”
- Spanish: “Muralla de Antonino”
- Spanish: “Muro Antonino”
- Spanish: “Muro de Antonino Pio”
- Spanish: “Muro de Antonino Pío”
- Spanish: “Muro de Antonino”
- Swedish: “Antoninus mur”
- Swedish: “Antoninus vall”
- Swedish: “Antonius mur”
- Turkish: “Antonine Duvarı”
- Turkish: “Antoninus Duvarı”
- Ukrainian: “Антонієвий вал”
- Ukrainian: “Вал Антоніна”
- Ukrainian: “Вал Антонія”
- Ukrainian: “Стіна Антонія”
- Uzbek: “Antonin devori”
- Welsh: “Mur Anton”
- Welsh: “Mur Antonaidd”
- Welsh: “Mur Antoninus”
- Western Frisian: “Muorre fan Antoninus”
- Wu Chinese: “安东尼长城”
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