Edinburgh Outdoors5 Nov 2024

Antonine Wall: finding the Romans

Having occupied Britain for hundreds of years, the Romans had a huge impact on our culture, landscape and history. I met the team from the now complete Rediscovering the Antonine Wall project to find out how they had worked with the line of the Antonine Wall - the Central Belt's own Roman wall (or what remains of it) to connect communities. We talked about Roman history, some fascinating finds along the wall and we also visited some of their projects around Auchinstarry and Croy, including the stunning giant head: Sylvanus.

Next steps for the Antonine Wall team are to create walks along and around the wall in each of the council areas the route crosses. They are also futher developing route guides to walk the 60km length of the wall from Old Kilpatrick on the Clyde to Bo'ness in the East.

Volunteering opportunities with Cycling Without Age Scotland can be found here: https://cyclingwithoutage.scot/volunteer-with-us/

More about the wall can be found here: https://rediscoveringtheantoninewall.org/

And if you want to find out more, I recommend The Antonine Wall by David J Breeze: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-antonine-wall/david-breeze/9781912476930

And I do apologise on the podcast that it was not recorded in Edinburgh, but if you want to search out local Roman remains try these places:

Inveresk, Cramond Fort, National Museum of Scotland, Callendar House in Falkirk and Rough Castle also in Falkirk. There's plenty to discover!

Google Maps location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/fysX6cLz7yiY15vh8

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