Antonine Wall
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Oct 21, 2026
Neil OliverHOST
And so they drew a line, which was Hadrian's Wall.
Neil OliverHOST
About 20 years later, they had a go at pushing the line further north and they created the Antonine Wall.
Neil OliverHOST
which Hadrian's Wall is stone.
Neil OliverHOST
The Antonine Wall was timber and heaped earth and turf.
Neil OliverHOST
It wasn't so permanent.
Neil OliverHOST
But it didn't work out for the Romans.
JimmyHOST
This is the historical mystery of how the idea of clan tartans developed, despite the fact that the concept, as we understand it, is absent from Scottish history.
JimmyHOST
Tartan itself is ancient, and in August 1933, workmen leveling a small hill at Bell's Meadow in Falkirk, a few hundred yards north of the Antonine Wall, broke open a clay pot with a spade.
JimmyHOST
Inside was the largest Roman coin hoard ever found in Scotland, roughly 2,000 silver pieces, the latest of them struck around 230 AD.
JimmyHOST
Stuffed in with them was a scrap of wool, woven in a simple two-tone check.
Neil OliverHOST
It's too expensive to occupy that territory.
Neil OliverHOST
And so that's why they limited themselves to Hadrian's Wall, Antonine Wall a bit further north for a little while.
Neil OliverHOST
But realistically, they just thought, no, it's not worth it.
Neil OliverHOST
And something similar.
Ed DouglasGUEST
I mean, it was porous.
Ed DouglasGUEST
You know, there were obviously for a time there was the Antonine Wall and they moved north a little bit and people crossed back and forth and so on and so forth.
Ed DouglasGUEST
But suddenly where there had been no border, there was a border.
Ed DouglasGUEST
It's a feature you see around the world.