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| CHAPEL HILL (Continued) | [continued from page 57] visible about West Kilpatrick. In that as in several other localities, the settlement of a considerable population, and the consequent spread of agriculture have, no doubt, been the principal causes of their entire dissapearance. Occasionally, however - as if to present from age to age some fresh memorials of the Roman Era - the operations of the husbandman have there been productive of, to him, unlooked for results, in exposing to view the fragments of ancient buildings, scattered underground, and sculptures of singular appearance, expressive of other times - to be heard of only in most remote tradition. But owing to the entire demolition of its remains, before the attention of any antiquarian author had been attracted towards the spot, we can say nothing of the form, size, or construction of that one, among the Stations erected by Urbicus, which looked down, it is said, from the Chapel Hill of Kilpatrick on the once 'silver current' of the Clyde. We must therefore be satisfied with a passing glance at the presumed evidences of its former existence, to be met with in those monumental records of their labours which the soldiery of the Roman legions had abandoned on their retreat." Cal. [Caledonia] Romana Ps. [Pages] 284-[5] Chapel Hill is well known as the site of a Roman Station on the Wall of Antoninus, & by the county people the entire hill is believed to be artificial from the soil of which it is composed being sandy. A steep, well defined slope, with fir trees upon it, encloses the south side of the hill, which on its rem[aining] sides mingles naturally with the grounds adjoining. The Hill is not of any remarkable height above the ground it adjoins exc[ept] on the south. "A portion of its base", as stated in the Cal. [Caledonia] Romana, "was removed in the year 1790, in excavating the line of the Forth & Clyde Canal, when a subterranean recess, containing a number of earthen vases & Roman coins, was laid open". This probably accounts for the steep bank on the side adjoining the canal. There is not an artificial appearance about the Chapel Hill except this. No part of the Hill is known or remarkable as the place where the coins were found. No Traces of the Ditch of the Wall itself are seen 'till at the field Sandyford - a mile & better east of the Station. |
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[Page] 58County Dumbarton -- Old Kilpatrick Parish
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