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	Hadrian's Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antonine was unable to conquer the northern tribes and so when Marcus Aurelius became emperor, he abandoned the Antonine Wall and occupied Hadrian's Wall once again in 164.
		Within one generation the Antonine Wall had been abandoned, and Hadrian's Wall was reoccupied.
		The wall is entirely in England and south of the border with Scotland by 15 km in the west and 110 km in the east.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hadrian's_Wall (1776 words)

	Antonine Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Antonine Wall was inferior to Hadrian's Wall in terms of scale and construction, but it was still an impressive achievement, considering that it was completed in only two years, at the northern edge of the Roman empire in what they perceived as a cold and hostile land.
		Construction of the Antonine Wall began in 142 CE during the reign of Antoninus Pius, and was completed in 144.
		The wall was intended to replace Hadrian's Wall 160 km (100 miles) to the south, as the frontier of Britannia, but while the Romans did establish temporary forts and camps north of the wall, they did not conquer the Caledonians, and the Antonine Wall suffered many attacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antonine_Wall (409 words)

	THE ANTONINE WALL -
		The Antonine Wall was abandoned after 20 years when the Roman army withdrew from Scotland in AD 164, pulling the northern frontier back down to Hadrian's Wall.
		The Antonine Wall is an outstanding monument to the ingenuity and engineering prowess of the Roman army.
		There is little archaeological evidence of significant attacks on the Antonine Wall, and life for a soldier stationed there was probably mostly uneventful.
	www.freewebs.com /antoninewall (1187 words)

	Antonine Wall
		It is not known whether Antonine’s Wall was intended to be constructed as a temporary or permanent defense.
		To the north of the wall was a defensive ditch, separated from the wall by a berm of varying widths (there is no evidence of a uniform width of berm along the wall).
		Construction on the wall is thought to have been initiated in AD 139 by the governor of Britain, Q. Lollius Urbicus, during the imperial reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius.
	www.gettysburg.edu /academics/english/britain/roman/Antonine.html (572 words)

	Antonine Wall
		The balance of evidence seems to indicate that the Antonine Wall was finally abandoned in about 164, and the Romans withdrew to Hadrian's Wall, which had been undergoing refurbishment since 158.
		The Antonine Wall was built from blocks of turf, laid on a stone foundation.
		A new wall was constructed in the early 140s, named after the emperor, running the 37 miles/60 kilometres across the narrow neck of land between the Forth (Bo'ness) and the Clyde (Old Kilpatrick).
	www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk /a_wall.htm (579 words)

	The Antonine Wall
		The Antonine Wall is named after the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius who ordered its construction in about AD 142.
		Forts and fortlets attached to the rear of the Wall housed regiments of auxiliaries.
		The Wall was built of blocks of turf, laid on a stone foundation 4.2m wide.
	www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk /museum/romans/ANTONINE.HTM (124 words)

	Antonine Wall -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Brigantes occupied the region south of the Antonine Wall, extending to the Humber estuary in the east and to the River Mersey in the west.
		The wall extended from coast to coast across the width of northern Britain; it ran for 73 miles (118 km) from Wallsend (Segedunum) on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness on the Solway Firth in the west.
		The wall was 14 to 16 feet (4 metres) wide and probably 10 feet (3 metres) high; a ditch 40 feet (12 metres) wide...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9007907 (790 words)

	THE ANTONINE WALL
		The Antonine Wall in Scotland was the northernmost frontier of the Roman empire.
		This station marks the eastern end of the Antonine Wall, and it is assumed that the Ravenna Cosmology again adopts the convention of listing stations in frontier systems from east to west, as is the case with the fort's along Hadrian's Wall.
		In addition to the unassigned stone from the Antonine Wall, there are three more Scottish stones recorded in the R.I.B. for which no location is known.
	www.roman-britain.org /frontiers/antonine.htm (1442 words)

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		The Antonine Wall, begun in AD 142 during the reign of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, consisted of a turf rampart set on a stone foundation stretching 37 miles across central Scotland.
		Related to this, the Antonine Wall is called the Severan Wall by a series of Late Roman and Dark Age historians including Eutropius, Orosius, and Bede.
		Britain were Hadrian's Wall between the Rivers Tyne and Solway and, farther north, the turf wall of Antoninus Pius between the Rivers Forth and Clyde.
	www.cs.iastate.edu /~baojie/history/other/2002-12-24_greatwall.htm (1115 words)

	Antonine Wall
		It may not be out of place to give here some account of the wall of Antonine.
		Along the whole extent of the wall there was a vast ditch or prœtentura on the outward or north side, which was generally twenty feet deep and forty feet wide, and which, there is reason to believe, might be filled with water when occasion required.
		The wall or rampart extended from Carriden on the Forth, two miles west from Blackness, and about the same distance east from Bo'ness, to West Kilpatrick on the Clyde.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/falkirk/falkirk/antonine.htm (458 words)

	Scotland For Visitors -History - Antonine Wall
		The Antonine Wall's construction began in AD 142 during the reign of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius.
		With three legions at his disposal he reclaimed an area to the North and marked another boundary which was to become known as the Antonine Wall.
		In front of this wall a broad ditch was dug as part of the overall defenses, and the fill from this ditch formed a low mound to the north.
	www.scotlandforvisitors.com /history/antonine.php (342 words)

	Romans and Frontiers - The Antonine Wall
		The ditch of at Watling Lodge on the Antonine Wall.
		The design of the new frontier was based on its predecessor in Northern England but, in contrast to Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine Wall was not built in stone, but of turf.
		Here the ditch in front of the wall is very well preserved and has survived largely with its original dimensions.
	www.britanniafilm.de /antonine01.html (152 words)

	Antoine Wall
		The Antonine Wall had a foundation of stone covered by earth and turf, It was 14 feet (4.2m) across at it’s base, and about ten feet high (3m) with a steep face and possibly topped with a palisade or fence.
		The western terminal of the Antonine Wall was at Old Kilpatrick where little evidence of it's existence remains but in places along it's path in Bearsden and Falkirk parts of the wall are still visible.
		There three legions, Legio IV, XX and II, constructed the Antonine Wall and attempted to hold it against the rebellious Celtic tribes of the north.
	www.overtounhouse.com /antonine.html (576 words)

	Romans in Scotland - The Antonine Wall
		The Antonine Wall was built by the soldiers of the Second Augusta, the Sixth Victrix, and the Twentieth Valeria Victrix legions (who were also responsible for the building of Hadrians Wall) some time around 142AD These units are testified by the inscriptions they set up on completion of certain lengths of the rampart.
		The Antonine Wall is named after the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius who ordered its construction.Originally six forts were planned - Carriden, Mumrills, Castlecary, Bar Hill, Balmuildy and Old Kilpatrick with fortlets built in between.
		Behind the wall was a cambered gravel road with drainage ditches either side - the Military Way- which allowed movement of troops and materials.
	www.ourpasthistory.com /roman_scotland/roman_antonine.htm (418 words)

	Antonine’s wall built 0139 AD
		Antonine’s wall built 0139 AD Antonine’s wall built 0139 AD While Antoninus Pius was the Roman Emperor, an order was sent by him in 139AD to Quintus Lollius Urbicus, his governor in Britain, to tame the troublesome Lowlanders of Scotland and advancethe boundaries of the Empire further.
		Building with turf and timber on a stone foundation, the Romans ran the Antonine Wall from the Clyde, thirty seven miles east to the Forth, with a fort every two miles and numerous signal towers.
		Along the front of the nine feet high wall ran a ditch, thirty-six feet wide.
	www.scotclans.com /clans/0139.htm (159 words)

	The Antonine Wall
		A length of the stone base of the wall was excavated prior to a road development and 12 metres had survived intact despite ploughing in the field (NS 521 725).
		The wall goes across to Hutcheson Hill, where, on the southern slope (NS 5151 7236), a 2'10" x 2'2" distance slab was found in 1865 by Buchanan, inscribed
		In the Drumchapel area, the wall runs from the Castlehill fort southwest to Peel Glen Road.
	www.templum.freeserve.co.uk /history/roman/antoninewall.htm (353 words)

	Page 6 - Antoninus to Severus
		The fact that the Antonine wall garrison was to be almost as numerous as that of Hadrian's wall despite the former being only half the size may be supporting evidence.
		He records they live by the wall that divides Britain in two; from the location of the tribe this would be the Antonine wall.
		The writings of Cassius Dio, regarding the Maeatae tribe, would indicate that the Antonine wall was in use when he was collecting evidence, which would be about 197.
	www.geocities.com /brian_bleich/Britain/page6.html (559 words)

	The Antonine Wall, Scotland
		Terence Odlin: The Antonine Wall and Hadrian's Wall
		The Antonine Wall was thirty-seven miles long, half the length of Hadrian's Wall, and extended from between the Firth of Forth and the mouth of the River Clyde.
		He briefly reoccupied and repaired the Antonine Wall and it was renamed the Severan Wall during the time.
	www.tartans.com /articles/antoninewall.html (918 words)

	BBC NEWS UK Scotland Roman wall builds heritage claim
		The Antonine Wall was abandoned in 160 AD and ruined parts of it survive to this day in Falkirk, Kirkintilloch, Polmont and Bearsden.
		The Antonine Wall bid forms part of a joint application with Austria, Germany and Slovakia to secure protection for the empire's boundaries, which stretched from Iraq to the Black Sea.
		The Antonine Wall was abandoned in 160 AD A Roman frontier which is Scotland's answer to Hadrian's Wall could be awarded World Heritage site status.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/scotland/2789239.stm (563 words)

	The Antonine Wall
		The Antonine Wall in Scotland was the northernmost frontier of the Roman empire, built around 142 AD by order of the emperor Antonine Pius, as a more northerly replacement of Hadrian’s Wall.
		In AD 164 and after only 22 years, the Roman army withdrew from Scotland and the Antonine Wall was abandoned.
		The Romans pulled back to their northern frontier at Hadrian's Wall and it was not until the barbarian invasions from the north in AD 197, that the emperor Septimius Severus returned in AD 208 to restore order along the Scottish borders.
	www.heritage.me.uk /misc/antonine_wall.htm (334 words)

	Antonine Wall
		A wall and ditch built of turf under the direction of Antonius Pius in 140 - 142 A.D. It was 59 Km long and stretched from the Forth to the Clyde in Scotland.
	www.battle1066.com /g021.shtml (100 words)

	hadrian.html
		The 72-mile wall from the Tyne to the Solvay is built mostly of stone with at least 16 forts and will provide a defensive barrier against the Picts and other tribesmen to the north.
		The British gov't has undertaken the preservation of the wall, which is one of the largest and most significant remains of the Roman occupation.
		It has a renowned collection of artefacts, models and diagrams relating to the Wall, and a full-scale reconstruction of the Temple to Mithras at Carrawburgh along the Wall.
	www.lyberty.com /encyc/articles/hadrian.html (446 words)

	BBC - History - The building of Antonine's Wall AD 142 - 144
		The Antonine Wall was thirty-seven miles long, four metres wide and fronted by a ditch approximately twelve metres in width.
		The building of Antonine's Wall AD 142- 144
		Across the narrowest neck of land between the Forth and the Clyde a second wall was built - this time of turf, stone and wood.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/britain/rom_antonine.shtml (189 words)

	Early travellers and excavators on the Antonine Wall
		Early travellers and excavators on the Antonine Wall
		The exact location of the wall was determined by the discovery of an inscribed stone by Robert Woodrow in the late seventeenth century.
		The wall is also clearly shown on Pont's map of the area, drawn some tens years later.
	www.btinternet.com /~ian.borthwick/LADAS/prog/00_antonine_wall.html (558 words)

	Antonine Wall
		The Antonine Wall was built as a shorter and more practical alternative to Hadrian& Wall.
		At least 16 forts garrisoned the wall and small fortlets and timber watchtowers were placed at intervals along it.
		It was defended until about 200, after which the frontier returned to Hadrian& Wall.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0016275.html (185 words)

	HADRIAN
		Hadrian conceived of the wall as a means of stabilizing northern Britannia, which had been a hotbed of rebellion and unrest for decades.
		One of Legio VI Victrix's greatest accomplishments was building a large section of Hadrian's Wall, a remarkable fortification that runs 80 miles across northern Britain dividing the relatively civilized southern province from the untamed north.
		The path of Hadrian's Wall was originally traced by a series of forts stretching from Carlisle in the West to Corbridge in the east, a line now called the Stanegate Frontier.
	www.legionsix.org /hadrian.htm (1124 words)

	Travels in the UK - A Perfectly Proper Holiday
		We have a wonderful view as we walk along talking of Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall and what it would have been like out here for the Roman soldiers who were displaced from their homeland, so many centuries ago.
		I hadn't thought about the Antonine Wall since the early days of planning my itinerary, when I sighed with resignation that there would be no time to see it.
		The stones in Roman walls are pretty much uniform in size, but these stones are so covered with mosses and lichens and plants growing out of them that it's impossible to see an entire stone.
	www.skell.org /travels/thirteen4F.htm (863 words)

	Antonine Wall
		Unlike its more solid southern counterpart, the Antonine Wall was built of turf fronted by a ditch 12 feet deep.
		As a defensive barrier the Antonine Wall did not fulfill its role for long.
		The wall was 10 feet high and 14 feet wide and dotted with 29 small military forts linked by a road.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/roman/antonine-wall.htm (216 words)

	Falkirk's Roman Connections
		He then ordered another wall to be erected, the Antonine Wall, which was to become the most Northerly frontier of one of the most vast and powerful Empires mankind has ever seen.
		Unlike the stone built Hadrians Wall, the Antonine Wall consisted of a rampant of soil faced with turf, resting on a stone foundation.
		This wall, known as Hadrians Wall, was 73 miles long, and stretched from the Tyne to the Solway Firth.
	www.almac.co.uk /FalkirkTCM/Rome.htm (1074 words)

	Antonine Wall Cottages - self catering Questions and Answers
		The Antonine Wall stretches from Old Kirkpatrick on the Clyde to Bo'ness on the Forth and is 37 miles in length.
		While in Antonine Wall Cottages grounds dogs must remain on leads at all times and pooper scoopers must be used.
		The Wall running through the cottages grounds and up to Rough Castle is under the care of Historic Scotland and is currently part of a multi-country “Frontiers of the Roman Empire” World Heritage Site bid.
	www.antoninewallcottages.co.uk /questions.htm (1081 words)

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