Kirkintilloch Fort
Antonine Wall Fort and Fort
The Antonine fort at Kirkintilloch was built on a hill overlooking from the south-west the confluence of a minor brook with the River Kelvin. The fort now lies just south of the A803 roundabout, west of the town centre, beneath the modern streets of Kirkintilloch. It has undergone only minor exploration during the years 1953-79 and minor excavations in 1988/9. The area covered by the fort is possibly around 3½ acres (1.4 ha).
The only pieces of dateable pottery are sherds of Form 33 decorated ware stamped by the Antonine potter Malliacus. There have been seven coins recovered from the Kirkintilloch site; single issues of the emperors Galba, Titus, Domitian, Antoninus Pius, Commodus, Constantine I and Justinian I.
RIB2184 - Distance slab of the Twentieth Legion
V ▸ V FEC ▸
M P ▸ III ▸ P
IIICCCIV
RIB2185 - Distance slab of the Sixth Legion
AELIO ▸ HADRIAÍ¡NO
ANTONINO ▸ AVG ▸
PIO ▸ P ▸ P ▸ VEXILLA
LEG ▸ VI<
References for Kirkintilloch Fort
- The Roman Wall in Scotland by Sir George MacDonald (Oxford, 2nd Ed. 1934) pp.289-296 ;
- The Roman Inscriptions of Britain by R.G. Collingwood and R.P. Wright (Oxford 1965);
- The Roman Occupations of Scotland by B.R. Hartley in Britannia iii (1972) pp.1-55;
- Chronology of the Ancient World by E.J. Bickerman (Thames & Hudson, London, 1980);
- Chronicle of the Roman Emperors by Chris Scarre (Thames & Hudson, London, 1995);
- A Survey of the Coin Finds from the Antonine Wall by Richard Abdy in Britannia xxxiii (2002) pp.189-217;
Roman Roads near Kirkintilloch Fort
Antonine Wall: E (1.75) to Avchendavy (Strathclyde) Antonine Wall: W (1) to Glasgow Bridge (Strathclyde)