Bronze Hammer, Bar Hill, Antonine Wall

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This is a bronze hammer head, found at Bar Hill fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland.

This hammer head would have been fitted onto a wooden handle and was clearly a valuable object; the owner has scratched his name ‘Ebutius’ on it to stop anyone from stealing it.

The Antonine Wall stretched right across Scotland, from the Clyde to the Forth. Constructed around 142 AD, and occupied for only 20 years, the remains of its ramparts, steep ditches, forts and bathhouses are still visible today. Since 2008, it has been part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.

More information on the World Heritage Site is available on www.antoninewall.org

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