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Hi i am looing for any information, links etc for the Romans in Coatbridge North Lanarkshire, can anyone help??
wikipedia mentions a Roman road in the area but i i cant find anything on it online.
North Lanarkshire (which Coatbridge is part of) has a pretty rich Roman history with Roman baths, bridges, forts and of course the Antonine Wall running through it!
if anyone has any information regarding Coatbridge that would be great.
cheers
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(01-06-2016, 11:46 AM)fhaggis Wrote: Hi i am looing for any information, links etc for the Romans in Coatbridge North Lanarkshire, can anyone help??
wikipedia mentions a Roman road in the area but i i cant find anything on it online.
North Lanarkshire (which Coatbridge is part of) has a pretty rich Roman history with Roman baths, bridges, forts and of course the Antonine Wall running through it!
if anyone has any information regarding Coatbridge that would be great.
cheers
On Roman Roads, your best bet is probably to get a copy of "The Secret History of the Roman Roads in Britain" by M.C.Bishop... at the very least it will lead you to the other sources, there is a website that accompanys the book but the maps arn't working for me:
http://romanroadsinbritain.info/
I cant say for certain but I'll takeĀ a wild guess that there is a Roman road in the line Glasgow Edinburgh running through Coatbridge, perhaps the Airdrie road?
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867