“Pioneers in Roman Archaeology: The Antonine Wall Committee” by Lawrence Keppie at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, appears in the Scottish Archaeological Journal, Volume 38 Issue 1, Page 1-31, ISSN 1471-5767.
The paper considers the origins of a Committee established by the Glasgow Archaeological Society in March 1891 to oversee an investigation of the Antonine Wall; the backgrounds and interrelationships of those involved; the methodologies and protocols adopted; the sequence in which the trenches were opened up; the slow progress to publication in 1899 of the written record, The Antonine Wall Report; and the significance of the work in the history of Scottish archaeology. Extensive use is made of the Minutes and Annual Reports of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, articles in the press and other contemporary documents. Hitherto unpublished site-drawings by the draughtsman Mungo Buchanan of Falkirk add to our knowledge of these events.
The images below are among several, which appear in Keppie’s article, freely available at http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/saj.2016.0061
1. Alexander Park, 1904 (© East Dunbartonshire Archives & Local History)
2. The Military Way exposed in a railway cutting on Croy Hill, photographed by Mungo Buchanan, June 1891 (© Falkirk Archives A067.011)
3. A trench cut across the Wall and Ditch east of Bar Hill (no. 1), seen from the north, 1891. Reproduced from The Antonine Wall Report (1899)
4.Mungo Buchanan, c. 1902 (© Falkirk Archives P 05456)
5. Section of a trench cut across the Antonine Wall at Bonnyside (no. 1), looking east, drawn by Mungo Buchanan, 25 April 1891 (© Falkirk Archives A067.011)
6. The Antonine Wall, as reconstructed at Bonnyside, photographed from the north-east by Mungo Buchanan, 1891 (© Falkirk Archives, P 02074)
7. Members of the Glasgow Archaeological Society and local antiquaries, photographed by Mungo Buchanan at Rough Castle, May 1891 (© Falkirk Archives P 02116)
