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The Early Medieval Antonine Wall*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2015

Adrián Maldonado*
Affiliation:
University of [email protected]

Abstract

Archaeological fieldwork in the Forth-Clyde isthmus has been dominated by the World Heritage Monument of the Antonine Wall, the Roman frontier built in the second century a.d. Considerably less attention has been given to the evidence for post-Roman experience of the Wall and how it was remembered (and forgotten) in the subsequent centuries. This paper will briefly summarise historical notices of the Antonine Wall, then consider the archaeological and toponymic evidence for early medieval occupation. The role of the Forth-Clyde isthmus as a political frontier is shown to be less significant to our understanding of this period than the evidence for mobility, memory and the contested legacy of Rome in early medieval Scotland.

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Footnotes

*

Pre-1974 county abbreviations used: ANG

Angus

BWK

Berwickshire

BTE

Bute

DMF

Dumfriesshire

DNB

Dunbartonshire

ELO

East Lothian

FIF

Fife

KCD

Kincardineshire

LAN

Lanarkshire

MLO

Midlothian

PEB

Peeblesshire

PER

Perthshire

ROX

Roxburghshire

SLK

Selkirkshire

STL

Stirlingshire

WLO

West Lothian

WIG

Wigtownshire

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