Monday, March 28, 2011

The Antonine Wall in Glasgow


It seems as though the Antonine wall is everywhere! This past Saturday Rachel and I went and helped Patsy and Scott Roy(they're the ones who hold the amazing dinners every fast Sunday). They are soon to build a house, and needed some work done on their property. We weren't there for long at all, and the bishop of the Glasgow ward, Bishop McLaughlin (who was also there helping with his son and another of the young men), drove Rachel and myself home. We got to talking about archaeology on the way home, and he told us that there was a cemetery on our way home that had part of the Antonine wall in it, and when his children were young and first learning about Rome, he would take them  there and say they could stand with one foot in Rome and one foot in Scotland! As we had a few minutes to kill, he took us there, and we got out and luckily Rachel had her phone with her so she was able to take some pics. The Antonine wall had a stone foundation, and the rest was timber and earthwork. What remained in the cemetery was the stone foundation. It was very fun scampering about.


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  1. This is so awesome!! Did you see the Roman Bath-House? (or what remains of it, I suppose)

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