Notes on a walking tour along 'The two Roman Walls' (Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall) with drawings

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Notes on a walking tour along 'The two Roman Walls' (Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall) with drawings

1875-78

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1 notebook

First half of notebook includes notes on a walking tour along the Roman Wall [Hadrian’s Wall] west from Brampton to the Solway Firth, and later east from Brampton towards Chesters through Haltwhistle and Housesteads. Includes drawings of arrangement of stones in wall, landscape, inscriptions and graffiti e.g. stone bearing a swastika, damage to wall from basalt quarrying, cheese presses at Langley Castle.

Second half of notebook incudes notes on Agricola and the Antonine wall, with details of a walking tour starting from Dumbarton and progressing east through Kirkintilloch, Auchinstarry and Falkirk. Includes drawings of the fosse at Kirkintilloch and other features of the landscape, inscriptions, street map of Callander.

Also includes a letter to J T Fowler from F G Harris returning lost notebook; funeral card for Rt Rev Robert W Wilson, late Bishop of Hobart-Town; loose notes dated Dec 1877 relating to Mr Greenfield and archaeological finds around Kirkintilloch (enclosed is a calling card for Mr John Meikle, Editor of the Falkirk Herald and Linlithgow Journal.

Fowler, Joseph Thomas (1833-1924), clergyman, Hebrew scholar and antiquary