Cleddans | |
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Founded during the reign of | Antoninus Pius |
Attested by | Trial trenching |
Place in the Roman world | |
Province | Britannia |
Stationed military units | |
— Legions — | |
20th 6th | |
Location | |
Coordinates | 55°55′12.7″N 4°23′19.3″W / 55.920194°N 4.388694°W |
Town | Glasgow |
Country | United Kingdom |
Site notes | |
Condition | Ploughed over |
Excavation dates | 1980 (Trial trenching) |
Cleddans is the site of a Roman fortlet on the Antonine Wall in Scotland.[2] Its postulated existence was confirmed by trial trenching in 1979. Evidence of building work on Cleddans and on the Wall by units of both the sixth and the twentieth legions has been found in the area.