The Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius ordered the construction of the Antonine Wall around 142. Quintus Lollius Urbicus, governor of Roman Britain at the time, initially supervised the effort, which may have taken … See more

The wall was abandoned within two decades of completion when the Roman legions withdrew to Hadrian's Wall in 162, and over time may have reached an accommodation with the Brythonic tribes of the area, w… See more

In the centuries that the Antonine Wall has lain abandoned, it has influenced culture between the Forth and the Clyde.
Writing in 730, Bede, following Gildas in his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, mistakenly … See more

The first capable effort to systematically map the Antonine Wall was undertaken in 1764 by William Roy, the forerunner of the Ordnance Survey. He provided accurate and detailed drawings of its remains, and where the … See more