The fort remained occupied even after the abandonment of the Antonine Wall in the early 160s.

It's called the Antonine Wall.

It was protected from raids in the north by the Hadrianic and Antonine Walls, while a fleet of some size was also available.

There are no absolute dates given, and some of the details, such as those regarding the Hadrian and Antonine Walls are clearly wrong.

Between 138-162 they came under direct Roman military rule as occupants of the region between Hadrian's and the Antonine Walls.

The Roman road which passed through Clydesdale to the western extremity of the Antonine Wall can be found in Kilncadzow.

Late in his reign he travelled to Britain, strengthening Hadrian's Wall and reoccupying the Antonine Wall.

An attempt was made to push this line north to the River Clyde-River Forth area in 142 when the Antonine Wall was constructed.

In early 210 Severus' son Caracalla led a punitive expedition north of the Antonine wall with the intention of killing everyone he came across and looting and burning everything of value.

In what became Scotland, there is archaeological evidence that after the battle of Mons Grampius, relations between the various tribes and the Romans were quite friendly, even north of the Antonine wall.

Roman commanders subsequently made various attempts to conquer territory to the north of this line, including the building of the Antonine Wall and the later Severan campaigns but their success was similarly short-lived.

The Antonine Wall, a 60 km-long fortification in Scotland, was started by Emperor Antonius Pius in 142 AD as a defense against the "Barbarians" of the north.

The quality of the structure bears stamp of legionary workmanship, being too elaborate for a purely local masons; and it appears to have been deliberately sited to be visible from the Antonine Wall.

The Roman fort at Cramond was established around 140 during the building of the Antonine Wall, and remained in use until around 170 when the Romans retreated south to Hadrian's Wall.

The Rhine settlement was their main camp, but vexillationes of the legion participated in the building of the Antonine wall in Scotland (2nd century) and in the campaigns against the Sassanid Empire (around 235).

Bachy/Soletanche and Morrison Construction Joint Venture won the contract to design the wheel and receiving basin, a new section of canal, a tunnel beneath the Antonine wall and a section of aqueduct.

The same emperor left his mark on the landscape of northern Britain when he built a wall to mark the limits of the empire, and after further conquests in Scotland, the Antonine wall was built to replace Hadrian's Wall.

Nearby attractions include the Falkirk Wheel, a huge boat lift that connects the Union Canal (Scotland) and Forth and Clyde Canal networks, and the Antonine Wall - marking the northern edge of the Roman Empire.

The war started well for the Romans with Severus managing to quickly reach the Antonine Wall, but when Severus pushed north into the highlands he became bogged down in a Guerrilla war and he was never able to fully subjugate Caledonia.

Inscriptions found on artifacts recovered at Rough Castle Fort along the Antonine Wall across the Central Belt of Scotland indicate that in the 2nd century the fort was the base for 500 men of the Sixth Cohort of Nervii, an infantry unit.