Bearsden Antonine Wall Fort Bath – Quick Facts

Where

Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland Map & Website

When

• Bathhouse was part of an Antonine Wall Fort dating from AD 142.
• The Fort was small, 1 acre, and was made of a turf rampart on a stone base surrounded by ditches. It had barracks, stables, granaries, storehouses and a bath-house. There was no commanding officer’s house (principia) or headquarters building (praetorium).
• The Antonine Wall was the boundary of the Roman Britannia built by Emperor Antoninus Pius in AD 142.
• The Antonine Wall was a turf and timber rampart wall 40 Roman miles long between the First of Forth and the Firth of Clyde.
• In AD 161 when the Romans retreated back to Hadrian’s Wall and that is where the boundary remained despite an attempt by Septimius Severus to regain territory in  Scotland  between AD 208-210. He died in York (Eboracum) in 211.

What Remains

• Bath-house foundations, including the change room (apodyterium), cold room (frigidarium), warm rooms (tepidaria), hot room and bath (caladarium).
• Remains of latrines and sewer drains.