Antoninus Pius was the man who gave his name to the Antonine Wall of 142 AD, which runs between the the Rivers Clyde and ...

The Antonine Wall served to protect the province ... troops arriving from the wall's major garrisons along the military way. The wall may also have operated as a customs and surveillance post.

The Antonine Wall also featured deep pits that would have had sharp spikes in them. These helped to make the wall hard to attack. Although the Romans had made previously fought their way further ...