Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Chapelhill

Chapelhill, an eminence in Old Kilpatrick parish, Dumbartonshire, adjacent to the Glasgow and Helensburgh railway, the Forth and Clyde Canal, and the river Clyde, ¼ mile W of Old Kilpatrick village. The site of the western terminal forts of Antoninus. Wall, it yielded in 1693 two Roman monumental tablets, which are preserved in the Glasgow University Museum; and Roman vases, coins, and other relics have also been found at it.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "an eminence"   (ADL Feature Type: "mountains")
Administrative units: Old Kilpatrick ScoP       Dunbartonshire ScoCnty

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