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The Antonine Wall was the Roman Empire’s final frontier in Britain—built around 142 AD under Emperor Antoninus Pius. Stretching roughly 37 miles across central Scotland from the Firth of Forth to the Firth of Clyde, it marked the northern edge of Roman control. Unlike Hadrian’s Wall to the south, the Antonine Wall was made mostly of turf on a stone foundation, fronted by a massive ditch and dotted with forts. It was abandoned after just two decades, but its remains still whisper of a time when R

Around AD 80, some 40 years before the construction of Hadrian’s Wall the northern frontier of Roman Britain was marked by a series of forts and watch towers along the Gask Ridge, a ridge of high ground running between Dunblane and Perth. The Romans retreated to what is now the Scottish-English border and in the 120s constructed Hadrian’s Wall. Twenty years later the frontier had moved north again, the Antonine Wall was constructed and some of the Gask forts were reoccupied. Ardoch Fort is one o