The Mark of Rome - Bridgeness Slab Film
How the Bridgeness Slab was Recreated
The film records how the original Bridgeness Roman Distance Slab was replicated using the latest laser scanning and stone milling technology.
The first public showing to the will take place on Tuesday 19 February at the Hippodrome Cinema at 7.30pm.
Tickets are free and can be obtained from the Hippodrome Box Office or The Steeple in Falkirk.
But numbers limited so if you want to be there, better get down there quick as It's First Come, First Served!
Unveiling of the Bridgeness Slab
Unveiling of the Bridgeness Slab
144 years since being found just off Harbour Road in 1868, and 10 years since first being agreed by Bo'ness Community Council as a project, The Bridgeness Slab returns home!
Bo'ness Community Council and Falkirk Council have been working together over the last three years on a project to display a facsimile of the Bridgeness Slab in Kinningars Park, Bridgeness, Bo'ness.
The joint project between Falkirk Council and Bo'ness Community Council has now been realised.
The Bridgeness Slab was officially unveiled on Friday 7 September at 12 noon!
The Bridgeness Slab in Bo'ness
The Bridgeness Slab is back in Bo'ness!
A full-size replica of the Bridgeness Slab, discovered in Bo'ness on the land of Henry Mowbray Cadell in 1868, and described as the largest and finest of the legionary tablets, was unveiled on Friday 7 September 2012 at a ceremony to celebrate its return.
Not the original but a masterpiece in its own right!
The original slab was found at Bridgeness, in 1868, on a rocky promontory close to what was then the shore at Harbour Road, Bo'ness.
The slab, sometimes called a tablet or stone, was presented by Mr Cadell, of Grange, to the National Museum of the Antiquaries of Scotland in Edinburgh and a facsimile of the centre panel erected close to the position where it was found.
The Bridgeness Distance Stone is of international importance!
Antonine Wall - Frontier of Roman in Scotland
Antonine Wall - Northern Frontier of Roman Empire in Scotland
Antonine Wall (or the Wall of Lollius Urbicus) connected the forts built between the Clyde and the Forth. About 60 kilometres in length it was garrisoned by approximately 30,000 men.
Hadrian's Wall had 83 soldiers per kilometres and 12,000 men manning the wall with a further 8,000 in forward Forts and in reserve.
It is believed the Antonine Wall had 300 men every kilometre. There would have been about 20,000 manning the Wall at any given time.
To man forward garrisons and also have soldiers in reserve a figure of 30,000 is reasonable but some estimate that it may have been nearer 50,000.