A Roman camp has been found, just 400m south of the Antonine Wall, which is thought to have housed the wall's constructors.
Roman camp's occupiers may have built the Antonine WallARCHAEOLOGISTS have found a camp thought to have been built to accommodate Roman construction workers who constructed the Antonine Wall.
- Scotsman 13/4/2007 -
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=566802007"The camp is typically Roman and is assumed to be associated with the construction of the Antonine Wall," he said.
"Depending on the precise date at which it was built, it may have been used by Roman scouting parties looking for the best place to build the wall itself and monitoring the locals.
"It would then have been used to accommodate those building the wall."