This fort has only given up Antonine remains and is likely to have been built and deserted at the same time as the Antonine Wall.
Visit Whitemoss Roman Fort
📍 Location: Bishopton, Renfrewshire
👁 What survives: No traces of the fort are visible on the ground; its buried remains are known from cropmarks and excavation.
⭐ Best for: Understanding Roman control of the Clyde west of the Antonine Wall.
🥾 Visit: There are no visible fort remains, so this is primarily a landscape and research stop.
🏛 Nearby Roman places: Old Kilpatrick, Barochan and the Clyde frontier
Bishopton / Whitemoss at a glance
| Occupation | Antonine period, broadly the AD 140s–160s; exact opening and closing years remain uncertain. |
| Garrison | Unknown. |
| Size | A reliable phase-specific internal area is not established in the sources summarised here. |
| Troop estimate | No secure numerical estimate is established here; fort area alone cannot determine the number present. |
Inscriptions
No unit-identifying inscription is cited in the site account.
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