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The Building of the Antonine Wall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Mark Hassall
Mark Hassall
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Institute of Archaeology, University of London
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Britannia , Volume 14 , November 1983 , pp. 262 - 264
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Copyright © Mark Hassall 1983. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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111 For the chronology of the governorships of Urbicus and that of his unknown successor see Birley, A. R., The Fasti of Roman Britain (Oxford, 1981), 112–6.Google Scholar

112 This figure is based on Macdonald's estimate of 37 miles, 599 yards (The Roman Wall in Scotland (Oxford, 1934), 343.)Google Scholar and a value of the Roman passus of 1·617 yards. Macdonald's measurements (which include the northern fort defences) were taken from a map. The distance on the ground will have been somewhat greater, cf. Ibid. 364.

113 Maxwell, G. S. in Pippidi, D. M. (ed.), Actes du IXe Congrés International d'Études sur les Frontiéres Romaines (Bucarest, 1974), 330;Google ScholarKeppie, L., PSAS cv (1972–1974), 154. Macdonald op. cit. (note 112), 370, 374.Google Scholar

114 RIB 2173.

115 The shortfall could be explained by supposing that the Avon crossing was included in the 4,666·5 paces allocated to Legion II, but was excluded from the total when the legion actually came to record the work done. However, it is perhaps more likely that recorded distances are those that were originally allocated in which case it may have been felt sensible simply to terminate this stretch at the Avon.

116 Actually the column shows two sacrifices: that of an ox shown with the bridge in the background, and a little later, and not, therefore, necessarily connected with the dedication of the bridge, a suovetaurilia.