Old Kilpatrick Roman Fort
- 142 AD fort built
- 165 AD abandoned ( assumed date)
The evidence is that the fort at Old Kilpatrick was carefully dismantled given the infilling of the well and it is assumed the Romans were transferred elsewhere because of military pressures.
- The Sixth Legion and 20th Legion left commemorative slabs.
- The First Cohort of Baetasians from the Netherlands served here.
Pius, Father of his Country, a detachment of the Twentieth Valiant and Victorious Legion built [this] over a distance of 4411 feet. This dramatic stone shows the front of a Roman temple. The reclining figure of Victory holds a large laurel wreath and leans on a globe, symbolic of her realm. This is an unusual position as Victory
is normally shown standing with her foot on a globe. It has been
suggested that she is shown in the pose of a river god, a reference to
the nearby River Clyde.
This stone has an inscription but no decoration unlike the other distance slabs. The use of the phrase “opus valli” is unusual and is used on only two of the nineteen distance slabs known.
Gallery of Photos at Fort Location
References
- Old Kilpatrick Roman Fort ( Canmore)
- Inscriptions (12) Roman Inscriptions of Britain
- Julius Verus and the Abandonment of Antonine Scotland – Britannia, Vol. 51 (2020), pp. 323-330 (8 pages)
