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Antonine Wall and fort at Castlecary is a Roman frontier fortification located in Stirlingshire, Scotland. Built around AD 142, the fort formed part of the Antonine Wall, the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire. The fort occupies a commanding position overlooking the surrounding landscape, with bedrock of the Clackmannan Group forming the geological foundation beneath the site. This sedimentary geology reflects cycles of deposition laid down during the Westphalian period in the Carboniferous era, providing a stable base for Roman engineers to construct their defensive structures.
The fort sat on a gentle rise, strategically positioned to monitor movement along the Forth valley. The stone rampart and ditch of the Wall remain visible in places, running roughly east–west across the locality. The fort itself measured approximately 160 metres along each side, containing barracks, workshops, granaries and administrative buildings arranged in the characteristic playing-card layout of Roman military architecture.
Today the monument remains a substantial upstanding archaeological feature within the broader landscape of the Antonine Wall system, which stretched for 37 miles across central Scotland. The site is protected by Historic Environment Scotland under scheduling reference SM90009, ensuring its preservation for future study and public understanding of Roman Scotland's military infrastructure.
Antonine Wall and fort, Castlecary is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM90009. View the official record →
Antonine Wall and fort at Castlecary is a Roman frontier fortification located in Stirlingshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM90009.
Antonine Wall and fort, Castlecary dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a castlecary. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Antonine Wall and fort, Castlecary is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM90009.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Antonine Wall, 185m NNE of Castlecary House Hotel (0.4 km), Antonine Wall, Wyndford Road to Castlecary (0.9 km), Antonine Wall, N of Cumbernauld airfield to Wyndford Road (1.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Antonine Wall and fort, Castlecary's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Antonine Wall and fort, Castlecary stands on Clackmannan Group, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, clackmannan group type.