Wilderness Plantation

Wilderness Plantation was the site of a Roman fortlet on the Antonine Wall in Scotland.

[2] The line of the Antonine Wall runs roughly parallel between the River Kelvin to the north and the Forth and Clyde Canal to the south.

[3] The site, like several others along the wall and beyond, was found by aerial photography, this discovery being reported in October 1965.

No coinage has been recovered nor are there any inscriptions from the fortlet although a single coin was picked up at Wilderness West.

[9] Larger forts like Castlecary and Birrens had a nominal cohort of 1000 men[10] but probably sheltered women and children[11] as well although the troops were not allowed to marry.

A single Hadrian dupondius coin was found at Wilderness West. [ 7 ]