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Antonine Wall north of Whitehill Avenue, Hillhead, Kirkintilloch is a stretch of the turf and stone fortification constructed by the Roman army around AD 142. Built across central Scotland from the Firth of Clyde to the Firth of Forth, the wall was intended to mark the northern frontier of Roman Britain during the reign of Antoninus Pius. At this location in Dunbartonshire, the wall followed the ridge of higher ground, exploiting the landscape to maintain sightlines along the frontier.
The bedrock beneath the site comprises the Clackmannan Group, sedimentary rocks of Carboniferous age which provided natural drainage. Construction of the wall involved laying stone and clay foundations before raising a turf superstructure with a defensive ditch to the north. The wall typically measured around 3 metres in height, though earthwork denuded by millennia has left a reduced profile across the landscape.
This section of the wall remains one of the most substantial examples surviving in Scotland, with the rampart clearly visible as an earthwork bank. The monument lies at the heart of the Antonine Wall's World Heritage Site and is protected by Historic Environment Scotland under designation SM90324. It represents a significant episode in Scotland's Roman occupation, lasting approximately two decades before Roman forces withdrew to Hadrian's Wall to the south.
Antonine Wall, N of Whitehill Avenue, Hillhead, Kirkintilloch is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM90324. View the official record →
Antonine Wall north of Whitehill Avenue, Hillhead, Kirkintilloch is a stretch of the turf and stone fortification constructed by the Roman army around AD 142. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM90324.
Antonine Wall, N of Whitehill Avenue, Hillhead, Kirkintilloch 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 SM90324.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Antonine Wall, to N and NE of St Flannan's Church, Cleddans (0.5 km), Antonine Wall and fort, 130m NE to 375m WSW of Auchendavie Farm (1 km), Forth and Clyde Canal: Kirkintilloch - Auchinstarry Farm (1.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Antonine Wall, N of Whitehill Avenue, Hillhead, Kirkintilloch'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, N of Whitehill Avenue, Hillhead, Kirkintilloch stands on Clackmannan Group, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, clackmannan group type.