DistanceSlab – Romans in Scotland

Antonine Wall distance slabs

There are 18 known Antonine Wall distance slabs The slabs are overwhelmingly concentrated in the western half of the Wall.

The academic article “They think it’s all over. The face of victory on the British frontier” by David J. Breeze

When the Roman army pushed back into southern Scotland in the AD 140s, they built more than the Antonine Wall.

For the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, father of his country, the Second Legion Augusta built (this

Commemorative inscription on a sandstone slab, recording the Roman army’s dedication of the building work on the easternmost part of