Visit Mumrills Roman Fort
📍 Location: Mumrills, Falkirk
👁 What survives: The fort itself is not strongly visible, but excavation has revealed a substantial Antonine garrison and important finds.
⭐ Best for: Exploring one of the largest forts on the Antonine Wall and the evidence for its garrison.
🥾 Visit: An urban-edge archaeological site; visible remains are limited.
🏛 Nearby Roman places: Rough Castle, Callendar Park and Inveravon
Mumrills at a glance
| Occupation | Antonine period, broadly the AD 140s–160s; exact opening and closing years remain uncertain. |
| Garrison | A Tungrian cavalry regiment and the Second Cohort of Thracians are represented in inscriptions associated with Mumrills. The texts do not establish a combined, simultaneous garrison. |
| Size | About 2.6 hectares (6.4 acres) internally, excluding the western annexe. |
| Troop estimate | A cohort-scale garrison, potentially including mounted troops; the former figure of over 700 should be treated as an estimate, not a muster total. |
- 142 AD Built
- 158 AD abandoned
The fort could have accommodated a substantial auxiliary force, but a figure of over 700 soldiers is an estimate rather than a surviving headcount. The Tungrians served here. (see RIB 2140) as did the Thracians.
Explore finds in video and 3D
Open an item below to play its short video or explore its interactive 3D model. Titles retain the publishers’ findspot labels; nearby discoveries need not have come from inside the fort. Videos are from the Antonine Wall Vimeo Account; interactive models are by Historic Environment Scotland.
Section of a funerary monument, Mumrills · Video, 17 seconds
17 seconds · Section of a funerary monument, Mumrills · Antonine Wall Vimeo Account
Chisel, Mumrills · Video, 17 seconds
17 seconds · Chisel, Mumrills · Antonine Wall Vimeo Account
Tongs, Mumrills · Video, 17 seconds
17 seconds · Tongs, Mumrills · Antonine Wall Vimeo Account
Box Flue Tile, Mumrills · Video, 17 seconds
17 seconds · Box Flue Tile, Mumrills · Antonine Wall Vimeo Account
Cooking Pot, Mumrills · Video, 17 seconds
17 seconds · Cooking Pot, Mumrills · Antonine Wall Vimeo Account
Concrete flooring fragment, Mumrills · Video, 17 seconds
17 seconds · Concrete flooring fragment, Mumrills · Antonine Wall Vimeo Account
Inscriptions
RIB 2140 names Valerius Nigrinus of a Tungrian cavalry regiment; RIB 2142 commemorates Nectovelius, a Brigantian serving in the Second Cohort of Thracians. Findspot, unit title and a soldier’s origin are distinct evidence.
References
- Mumrills Roman Fort (Trove NRHE)
- Inscriptions ( Roman Inscriptions of Britain)
- Hanson, Jones and Hannon (2024), Exploring the Antonine Wall with terrestrial remote sensing
- Roman Inscriptions of Britain: Mumrills
- Mumrills Roman Fort at Sandyloan Crescent, Laurieston, 2025
- Mumrills Fort at 13 Sandyloan Crescent, 2026 (Part 1)
- Mumrills Fort at 13 Sandyloan Crescent, 2026 (Part 2)
