For more information on visiting the Antonine Wall, please visit. Mercat Press, Edinburgh. These pits, known as lilia, would originally have contained sharpened stakes at the bottom.
Altar dedicated to Victory. Plan a Great Day Out. Rough Castle, an ancient Roman fortress, lies underused and underappreciated. For more information on visiting the Antonine Wall, please visit www.antoninewall.org Alternatively, park at the Falkirk Wheel, then follow the signposted path up from the visitor centre, a walk of about 15 minutes. Whilst future emperors, most notably Septimus Severus, fought in Scotland the frontier was never again moved north.
Join Historic Scotland to visit our properties free of charge for a full year and support our work at the same time. Burns R (2009). Plan of Rough Castle Fort interior. The Antonine Wall dates from about 143 AD. Several sites in the area are associated with the formidable Lady Anne Clifford, including the picturesque Brougham Castle, set on the banks of the River Eamont, and a half hour drive from Brough. Neil Wilson Publishing, London. Rough Castle consists of earthworks of the fort and the associated annexe along with impressive remains of the Antonine Wall including ditch, rampart and the Military Way. [14], A sound and light show has been organised at Rough Castle in November 2018 to promote tourism. [1] It is owned by the National Trust for Scotland.[2]. [3], Inscriptions found on recovered artifacts indicate that the fort based 480 men of the Cohors VI Nerviorum of Nervii, foot soldiers drawn from a north-eastern Gallic tribe.
This is the best site to gain an impression of how the frontier and its integral forts worked. Built as part of Romeâs northernmost frontier, Rough Castle was a small earth and timber fort on the Antonine Wall. Southern, P (2011). Causeways were then constructed across the main Antonine and secondary defensive ditches, affording easy access to and from the fort. MacDonald, G (2010). The Antonine Wall: Rome's Northern Frontier. Interestingly the bath house was built on an annexe. Accordingly he sent his Legions north to occupy what is now Southern Scotland and established a new frontier on the narrow neck of land between the Clyde and the Forth. [8], Tablet from Rough Castle Principia. The fort housed around 500 Roman Auxiliaries and was garrisoned by the Sixth Cohort of Nervians (Cohors VI Nerviorum), an infantry unit recruited from North East France. The countryside of the Antonine Wall: A survey and recommended policy statement. RCAHMS (2008). 29 in the 2nd edition of his book The Roman Wall in Scotland. RIB 2145, dedicated to the emperor Antoninus Pius. It should be so much more. George MacDonald shows other drawings in the 2nd edition of his book The Roman Wall in Scotland. Layout and position of Rough Castle and its annexe. [7] It has been scanned and a video produced. The ends of the wall were uncertain for many years.
Furthermore coins were minted in AD 154/5 celebrating a major victory in Britannia. RCAHMS, Edinburgh. The fort contained several buildings, made of stone from a time when this was a less common construction material.
34 in the 2nd edition of his book The Roman Wall in Scotland. Rough Castle was an outpost on the Antonine Wall. © 2020 Getty Images. In the east Carriden near Bo'ness on the Forth was a likely endpoint. We are and experience and events organisation with a very unique site.
Shotter, D (1998). [1] It is owned by the National Trust for Scotland.[2]. An altar to Victory was found in 1843 to the south of the fort.
Strong footwear is recommended as the site does get muddy even in the Summer months. There is a small car park at the end of this road. Rough Castle Fort is a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall roughly 2 kilometres south east of Bonnybridge near Tamfourhill in the Falkirk council area, Scotland. Get a real picture of Roman frontier life at the best-preserved fort on the Antonine Wall. View North. General Books, London. Rough Castle is the second-smallest fort on the wall, but it’s in the best state of preservation. Carnegie Publishing Ltd, London. This significant reduction in available forces led to the Romans withdrawing to the Solway/Tyne isthmus where they famously built Hadrian's Wall from AD 122 onwards. A section of the Antonine Wall just to the west of the fort. Wall, which was built across Scotland’s central belt from AD 140. Rough Castle is the home of The Antonine Wall - UNESCO World Heritage site. The lilia were positioned to help defend the vulnerable northern gateway through the Wall. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images.