Inveravon was a small Roman fort on the Antonine Wall, situated on the south bank of the River Avon between Mumrills and Kinneil. Like the rest of the Wall installations, it was occupied during the relatively brief Antonine period in Scotland, c. AD 142–162, when the frontier was advanced north from Hadrian's Wall under Antoninus Pius before being abandoned and the garrison withdrawn south.
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Inveravon held a strategic position guarding the Wall's crossing of the Avon, a significant watercourse, and probably functioned as one of the smaller secondary forts or fortlets supplementing the larger garrison bases along this stretch of the frontier. Its role would have been local surveillance and control of movement at the river crossing rather than housing a large auxiliary unit.
The site is poorly preserved and has seen only limited investigation: excavations in the 1960s and 1990s identified the line of the Wall ditch, sections of the Military Way, and traces of three successive expansions or annexe enclosures east of a presumed fort platform, but the fort interior itself remains largely unexamined and its precise plan, size, and internal buildings are not securely established.
Inveravon was a small Roman fort on the Antonine Wall, situated on the south bank of the River Avon between Mumrills and Kinneil. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a fort site from the Roman period in Britain.
Inveravon is classified as a Roman fort — a military site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Kinneil (2.7 km), Mumrills (3.3 km), Roman bath house, Callendar Park, Falkirk (5.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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