Personal Belongings
Personal belongings gives an insight into the lives of people who lived along the Antonine Wall.
A range of building materials have survived at sites along the Antonine Wall.
Building materials give an insight into the types of buildings found along the wall. Roof tiles, carved stone columns and dressed stones indicate impressive administrative buildings. Hypocaust fittings, lead pipes and concrete flooring show the bath-house buildings the soldiers would have had access to.
Bar Hill Principia Building Columns Reconstruction, now in the Hunterian Museum
A selection of tools has been recovered which would have been used for construction and repair works. This includes axe-heads, chisels and a hammerhead with the owner’s name on it.
Hammer Head, Bar Hill, Now in the Hunterian Museum
Distance Slabs
19 inscribed stone tablets, originally fixed to the rampart, provided a unique record of the building of the wall.
Altars
A number of altars, carved in stone, were raised along the line of the Antonine Wall by both soldiers and civilians.