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The site of Rough Castle fort on a large grassy hill. Deep shadows highlight mounds and ditches of the forts’ structures.

Rough Castle

If you can only visit one Antonine Wall location, make it Rough Castle. This site features the best-preserved fort, with defenses and an annexe, as well as the tallest surviving portion of Antonine Wall Rampart, excellent Ditch profiles, and the only known example of lilia defensive pits.

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A couple take photos of the stone walls of Bearsden bathhouse. The walls are low and surrounded by lawn and a perimeter wall.

Bearsden

Visit Bearsden for exposed and preserved remains of a Roman bathhouse and latrine.

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Bar Hill fort from above, a rectangular building and circular stone well visible in the grass. There are trees all around.

Bar Hill

Bar Hill is the highest fort on the Antonine Wall, with good views in all directions, some preserved fort remains, and an adjacent Iron Age fort. Bar Hill offers the best views of the Antonine Wall in its wider landscape setting.

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Kinneil fortlet seen from above. The grass around the remains is short, the site boundary marked with short wooden posts.

Kinneil

Visit Kinneil for the only visible example of an Antonine Wall fortlet. Also stop by the Kinneil Museum and, if open for viewing, Kinneil House.

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A group of people walk along a grassy woodland path. There are broadleaved trees with green foliage on both sides of them.

Callendar Park

Callendar Park offers long open stretches of the Antonine Wall Ditch, as well as an excellent museum within Callendar House.

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Watling Lodge, a deep ditch with long grass and piles of leaves in it. Dappled light shines through trees on either side.

Watling Lodge

Visit Watling Lodge off Tamfourhill Road for the best-preserved section of the Antonine Wall Ditch, which survives almost to original dimensions. A Roman fortlet was located in the gardens of Watling Lodge.

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New Kilpatrick cemetery from above. The exposed section of wall base is in the foreground. It is made of cobbles.

New Kilpatrick Cemetery, Bearsden

Two sections of the Wall’s stone foundation are preserved and visible, making New Kilpatrick Cemetery the best location to see this essential aspect of the Antonine Wall Rampart.

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Seabegs Wood, a wide, grass path with trees on either side of it. The land slopes upwards at the edge right up to the trees.

Seabegs Wood

Visit Seabegs Wood for good views of the Antonine Wall Ditch and Rampart, as well as the best-preserved visible remains of the Military Way.

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Tollpark is in a wild, tussocky grassland with a couple of trees amongst the grass. The sky is blue with small white clouds.

Tollpark & Garnhall

Between the forts at Castlecary and Westerwood lies one of the longest continuous stretches of the Antonine Wall that can be seen today.

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