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Ordnance Survey - Stirling county, OS Name Books - Stirling county - Volume 12 - Town of Falkirk, OS1/32/12

Continued entries/extra info

[Page] 47

30.3.24 or 25 -- Town of Falkirk -- 1/500

[Continuation of Name as Written:]
Constructed by Lollius Urbicus
A.D. 140
(Roman Legions II, VI, and XX)

Extract from Roy's Military Antiquites respecting the above wall.

"The first wall was raised by the emperor Hadrian along the line of the
nearest chain of forts, in the year 120. The second was executed
by Lollius Urbicus, in the reign of Antoninus, along the farthest chain of forts, in
the year 140." (This is the wall referred to in this page) "In the Britannia Romana
is given a very full and accurate detail of all the inscriptions that had then
been discovered along the course of the wall; whence it appears that no more
than three legions; the second, surnamed Augusta ; the sixth, Victrix, and
the twentieth, Volans victrix, had any concern in the execution of that
public work".

Ordnance Survey - Stirling county, OS Name Books - Stirling county - Volume 12 - Town of Falkirk, OS1/32/12

This volume contains information on place names found in the town of Falkirk.

Ordnance Survey - Stirling county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Stirling, which is in central Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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