🧵/27
A short way further but was losing the light & just had a chance to catch the section at Watling lodge before heading back to Glasgow for the night
anyway - it was a very special couple of days, been nice to finally share it!
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
A short way further but was losing the light & just had a chance to catch the section at Watling lodge before heading back to Glasgow for the night
anyway - it was a very special couple of days, been nice to finally share it!
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🧵/27
A short way further but was losing the light & just had a chance to catch the section at Watling lodge before heading back to Glasgow for the night
anyway - it was a very special couple of days, been nice to finally share it!
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
A short way further but was losing the light & just had a chance to catch the section at Watling lodge before heading back to Glasgow for the night
anyway - it was a very special couple of days, been nice to finally share it!
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/26
Also at rough castle - some recreated lilia: these trap holes which formed part of the multi-approach construction of the Antonine Wall defences
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
Also at rough castle - some recreated lilia: these trap holes which formed part of the multi-approach construction of the Antonine Wall defences
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Also at rough castle - some recreated lilia: these trap holes which formed part of the multi-approach construction of the Antonine Wall defences
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
Also at rough castle - some recreated lilia: these trap holes which formed part of the multi-approach construction of the Antonine Wall defences
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/24
...and from there, with a little walking the line of the Wall was about to get more spectacular again
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
...and from there, with a little walking the line of the Wall was about to get more spectacular again
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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...and from there, with a little walking the line of the Wall was about to get more spectacular again
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
...and from there, with a little walking the line of the Wall was about to get more spectacular again
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/23
After a while of walking along a canal (or what i assume is a canal?) the bank of the wall becomes more visible again - just outside Bonnybridge
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
After a while of walking along a canal (or what i assume is a canal?) the bank of the wall becomes more visible again - just outside Bonnybridge
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🧵/23
After a while of walking along a canal (or what i assume is a canal?) the bank of the wall becomes more visible again - just outside Bonnybridge
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
After a while of walking along a canal (or what i assume is a canal?) the bank of the wall becomes more visible again - just outside Bonnybridge
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/22
After a coffee stop in Cumbernauld, the next stretch was quite a lot of walking, with not a lot to see in the landscape - the ditch & bank was just about visible in parts, but the Castlecary fort site is essentially an empty field
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
After a coffee stop in Cumbernauld, the next stretch was quite a lot of walking, with not a lot to see in the landscape - the ditch & bank was just about visible in parts, but the Castlecary fort site is essentially an empty field
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🧵/22
After a coffee stop in Cumbernauld, the next stretch was quite a lot of walking, with not a lot to see in the landscape - the ditch & bank was just about visible in parts, but the Castlecary fort site is essentially an empty field
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
After a coffee stop in Cumbernauld, the next stretch was quite a lot of walking, with not a lot to see in the landscape - the ditch & bank was just about visible in parts, but the Castlecary fort site is essentially an empty field
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/20
...This on the other hand, just off trail on the way out of Dullatur 😬😬😬
Oof
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
...This on the other hand, just off trail on the way out of Dullatur 😬😬😬
Oof
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🧵/20
...This on the other hand, just off trail on the way out of Dullatur 😬😬😬
Oof
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
...This on the other hand, just off trail on the way out of Dullatur 😬😬😬
Oof
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/19
Then it's only a short way to Silvanus
I thought I was going to dislike this, in pictures it had looked a bit tacky but in person, it's actually pretty great! The rusty iron surface a nod to both the Roman, and later industrial legacy of the area
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
Then it's only a short way to Silvanus
I thought I was going to dislike this, in pictures it had looked a bit tacky but in person, it's actually pretty great! The rusty iron surface a nod to both the Roman, and later industrial legacy of the area
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🧵/19
Then it's only a short way to Silvanus
I thought I was going to dislike this, in pictures it had looked a bit tacky but in person, it's actually pretty great! The rusty iron surface a nod to both the Roman, and later industrial legacy of the area
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
Then it's only a short way to Silvanus
I thought I was going to dislike this, in pictures it had looked a bit tacky but in person, it's actually pretty great! The rusty iron surface a nod to both the Roman, and later industrial legacy of the area
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/18
Heading east - and by contrast to Bar Hill, the Croy Hill Fort is very difficult to perceive in the landscape without the help of the info boards
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
Heading east - and by contrast to Bar Hill, the Croy Hill Fort is very difficult to perceive in the landscape without the help of the info boards
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
🧵/18
Heading east - and by contrast to Bar Hill, the Croy Hill Fort is very difficult to perceive in the landscape without the help of the info boards
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
Heading east - and by contrast to Bar Hill, the Croy Hill Fort is very difficult to perceive in the landscape without the help of the info boards
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/17
Other than the gorgeous aspect of this section looking east, you can also see the mist clearing on Croy hill opposite where the next fort would be located
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
Other than the gorgeous aspect of this section looking east, you can also see the mist clearing on Croy hill opposite where the next fort would be located
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🧵/17
Other than the gorgeous aspect of this section looking east, you can also see the mist clearing on Croy hill opposite where the next fort would be located
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
Other than the gorgeous aspect of this section looking east, you can also see the mist clearing on Croy hill opposite where the next fort would be located
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/16
Things we about to get much MUCH more spectacular however as in climbing castle hill, formerly an earlier hillfort just next to the Bar Hill Roman fort we were greated with this view of the wall 😳
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
Things we about to get much MUCH more spectacular however as in climbing castle hill, formerly an earlier hillfort just next to the Bar Hill Roman fort we were greated with this view of the wall 😳
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
🧵/16
Things we about to get much MUCH more spectacular however as in climbing castle hill, formerly an earlier hillfort just next to the Bar Hill Roman fort we were greated with this view of the wall 😳
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
Things we about to get much MUCH more spectacular however as in climbing castle hill, formerly an earlier hillfort just next to the Bar Hill Roman fort we were greated with this view of the wall 😳
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/15
You can see the line of the wall quite clearly from here along with a small amount of masonry just peeking out from the grass
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
You can see the line of the wall quite clearly from here along with a small amount of masonry just peeking out from the grass
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
🧵/15
You can see the line of the wall quite clearly from here along with a small amount of masonry just peeking out from the grass
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
You can see the line of the wall quite clearly from here along with a small amount of masonry just peeking out from the grass
#AncientSiteSunday
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/14
After a long hike & near full-day internet outage yesterday, never got to finish this thread on the Antonine Wall, but since its #AncientSiteSunday i'm just going to keep posting 😊
Where we left off we were enjoy the views over the mist from Bar Hill
#RomanSiteSaturday
After a long hike & near full-day internet outage yesterday, never got to finish this thread on the Antonine Wall, but since its #AncientSiteSunday i'm just going to keep posting 😊
Where we left off we were enjoy the views over the mist from Bar Hill
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🧵/14
After a long hike & near full-day internet outage yesterday, never got to finish this thread on the Antonine Wall, but since its #AncientSiteSunday i'm just going to keep posting 😊
Where we left off we were enjoy the views over the mist from Bar Hill
#RomanSiteSaturday
After a long hike & near full-day internet outage yesterday, never got to finish this thread on the Antonine Wall, but since its #AncientSiteSunday i'm just going to keep posting 😊
Where we left off we were enjoy the views over the mist from Bar Hill
#RomanSiteSaturday
Tarragona, Spain.
#Roman Tarraco, established by early 2nd C BC, had a good variety of entertainment venues, eg
*325m long circus for chariot racing w cement vaults to support stands above + for circulation;
*amphitheatre nr beach + Via Augusta, handy for bringing animals in. 🏺
#Roman Tarraco, established by early 2nd C BC, had a good variety of entertainment venues, eg
*325m long circus for chariot racing w cement vaults to support stands above + for circulation;
*amphitheatre nr beach + Via Augusta, handy for bringing animals in. 🏺
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Roman Ruins in Agrigento, Sicily, courtesy of Wayne S. Grazio. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Roman Ruins in Agrigento, Sicily, courtesy of Wayne S. Grazio. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology
Marble clad toilet seats in an ancient #Roman latrina in Ostia Antica - Toilets were shared spaces.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Marble clad toilet seats in an ancient #Roman latrina in Ostia Antica - Toilets were shared spaces.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
#RomanSiteSaturday
The Amphitheatre of #Pompeii is one of the oldest surviving #Roman amphitheatres.
#Archaeology #History
The Amphitheatre of #Pompeii is one of the oldest surviving #Roman amphitheatres.
#Archaeology #History
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
#RomanSiteSaturday
The Amphitheatre of #Pompeii is one of the oldest surviving #Roman amphitheatres.
#Archaeology #History
The Amphitheatre of #Pompeii is one of the oldest surviving #Roman amphitheatres.
#Archaeology #History
A window to the ancient world...
The Roman Amphitheatre of El Djem, Tunisia
📸 Mine
#RomanSiteSaturday #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
The Roman Amphitheatre of El Djem, Tunisia
📸 Mine
#RomanSiteSaturday #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A window to the ancient world...
The Roman Amphitheatre of El Djem, Tunisia
📸 Mine
#RomanSiteSaturday #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
The Roman Amphitheatre of El Djem, Tunisia
📸 Mine
#RomanSiteSaturday #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
🧵/13
Also - to my amusement disproved my previous days assumption that i was at the 'Northernmost Baths in the empire' as just down the hill from Bar Hill ...a Bath House 🤭😆
...and its at least a few miles more northerly than Bearsden
#RomanSiteSaturday
Also - to my amusement disproved my previous days assumption that i was at the 'Northernmost Baths in the empire' as just down the hill from Bar Hill ...a Bath House 🤭😆
...and its at least a few miles more northerly than Bearsden
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🧵/13
Also - to my amusement disproved my previous days assumption that i was at the 'Northernmost Baths in the empire' as just down the hill from Bar Hill ...a Bath House 🤭😆
...and its at least a few miles more northerly than Bearsden
#RomanSiteSaturday
Also - to my amusement disproved my previous days assumption that i was at the 'Northernmost Baths in the empire' as just down the hill from Bar Hill ...a Bath House 🤭😆
...and its at least a few miles more northerly than Bearsden
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/12
The views in all directions were breathtaking, which makes the location of Bar Hill Fort make all the more sense
#RomanSiteSaturday
The views in all directions were breathtaking, which makes the location of Bar Hill Fort make all the more sense
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🧵/12
The views in all directions were breathtaking, which makes the location of Bar Hill Fort make all the more sense
#RomanSiteSaturday
The views in all directions were breathtaking, which makes the location of Bar Hill Fort make all the more sense
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/9
Of particular note, this inscription which gives us a solid dating for the wall: to the rule of Urbicus, governor of Britain from 138-143 AD
#RomanSiteSaturday
Of particular note, this inscription which gives us a solid dating for the wall: to the rule of Urbicus, governor of Britain from 138-143 AD
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🧵/9
Of particular note, this inscription which gives us a solid dating for the wall: to the rule of Urbicus, governor of Britain from 138-143 AD
#RomanSiteSaturday
Of particular note, this inscription which gives us a solid dating for the wall: to the rule of Urbicus, governor of Britain from 138-143 AD
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/8
It was a big hurry to get there before closing but juuuust managed to get to the Hunterian Museum & its fantastic collection from the Antonine wall
#RomanSiteSaturday
It was a big hurry to get there before closing but juuuust managed to get to the Hunterian Museum & its fantastic collection from the Antonine wall
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🧵/8
It was a big hurry to get there before closing but juuuust managed to get to the Hunterian Museum & its fantastic collection from the Antonine wall
#RomanSiteSaturday
It was a big hurry to get there before closing but juuuust managed to get to the Hunterian Museum & its fantastic collection from the Antonine wall
#RomanSiteSaturday
Walking west in Hadrian's Wall mile 22. Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail runs between the Vallum ditch and north mound. #hadrianswall #followtheacorn #romansitesaturday
November 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Walking west in Hadrian's Wall mile 22. Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail runs between the Vallum ditch and north mound. #hadrianswall #followtheacorn #romansitesaturday
🧵/7
& Just above the baths, a Roman fort winning at hide and seek,
But gorgeous colours
#RomanSiteSaturday
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& Just above the baths, a Roman fort winning at hide and seek,
But gorgeous colours
#RomanSiteSaturday
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#RomanFortThursday & while rather well camouflaged beneath these beautiful autumn colours, Bothwellhaugh Roman Fort just south east of Glasgow is in there
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🧵/7
& Just above the baths, a Roman fort winning at hide and seek,
But gorgeous colours
#RomanSiteSaturday
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& Just above the baths, a Roman fort winning at hide and seek,
But gorgeous colours
#RomanSiteSaturday
bsky.app/profile/fore...
🧵/6
We had a few other things to catch around the Glasgow area, so wind forward to the afternoon and a train ride to the outer suburbs around Motherwell & *another* bath house
In pretty great shape too!
#RomanSiteSaturday
We had a few other things to catch around the Glasgow area, so wind forward to the afternoon and a train ride to the outer suburbs around Motherwell & *another* bath house
In pretty great shape too!
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🧵/6
We had a few other things to catch around the Glasgow area, so wind forward to the afternoon and a train ride to the outer suburbs around Motherwell & *another* bath house
In pretty great shape too!
#RomanSiteSaturday
We had a few other things to catch around the Glasgow area, so wind forward to the afternoon and a train ride to the outer suburbs around Motherwell & *another* bath house
In pretty great shape too!
#RomanSiteSaturday
🧵/5
A short walk away in the Kilpatrick cemetery there are a couple of uncovered sections of some of the stone foundations of the wall
#RomanSiteSaturday
A short walk away in the Kilpatrick cemetery there are a couple of uncovered sections of some of the stone foundations of the wall
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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A short walk away in the Kilpatrick cemetery there are a couple of uncovered sections of some of the stone foundations of the wall
#RomanSiteSaturday
A short walk away in the Kilpatrick cemetery there are a couple of uncovered sections of some of the stone foundations of the wall
#RomanSiteSaturday