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Antonine Wall to the north and north-east of St Flannan's Church, Cleddans is a scheduled monument in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7456. This section of the wall lies across bedrock of the Clackmannan Group, sedimentary rocks formed during the Westphalian age, which would have presented both practical challenges and advantages to Roman engineers constructing this frontier.
The Antonine Wall stretched across central Scotland from the Firth of Clyde to the Firth of Forth, representing the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire in Britain during the 2nd century AD. At Cleddans, the monument survives in association with the established medieval settlement marked by St Flannan's Church, indicating how Roman and later Scottish settlement patterns sometimes aligned with the same strategic landscape features.
The wall's survival here, despite nearly two millennia of agricultural use and landscape change, reflects the substantial engineering of its construction. Built of turf and stone with a deep ditch to the north, it required considerable labour and logistics to complete across challenging Scottish terrain. The Cleddans section contributes to our understanding of how the Romans adapted their standard fortification designs to local geology and conditions across the northern reaches of their provincial territories.
Antonine Wall, to N and NE of St Flannan's Church, Cleddans is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7456. View the official record →
Antonine Wall to the north and north-east of St Flannan's Church, Cleddans is a scheduled monument in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7456.
Antonine Wall, to N and NE of St Flannan's Church, Cleddans dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a to n and ne of st flannan's church, cleddans. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Antonine Wall, to N and NE of St Flannan's Church, Cleddans 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 SM7456.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Antonine Wall, N of Whitehill Avenue, Hillhead, Kirkintilloch (0.5 km), Antonine Wall, Peel Park, Roman fort and medieval castle (1.3 km), Forth and Clyde Canal: Kirkintilloch - Auchinstarry Farm (2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Antonine Wall, to N and NE of St Flannan's Church, Cleddans'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, to N and NE of St Flannan's Church, Cleddans stands on Clackmannan Group, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, clackmannan group type.