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Among the 1970s flats of suburban Bearsden, low stone walls in a lawned enclosure are the best surviving Roman stone buildings on the Antonine Wall: the bath house and latrine of a fort built here from AD 140. The fort itself lies under the modern roads and houses; the bath house was found in the early 1970s by builders working on a housing development. It had seven rooms, from a changing room and cold bath through warm and hot steam rooms to a hot bath and a hot dry room, and like other Roman baths it was a social centre for gossip, business and politics as much as washing. Finds include the carved head of a goddess, a gaming board and a building stone inscribed by men of the Twentieth Legion. The Wall is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site. The slabs are slippery when wet. The council's free Glebe car park is a short walk west.
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- Bearsden Bath HouseOpen at all times; an unstaffed open site, no hours published
Opening times may change at short notice.
Historic Scotland: 'Bearsden Bath House is free to visit and open year-round.' No hours, closures or notices on 20 October 2026. The Antonine Wall is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
Easily reached from the road; the remains are low walls in a lawned enclosure among flats, with information panels and a bench. Grass and stone slabs can be slippery when wet, with uneven surfaces and trip risks from low walls, cobbles and wooden posts. No toilets on site; cafes nearby at Bearsden Cross.
Photo: The low stone walls and cold bath of the Roman bath house at Bearsden, set in gravel among modern flats. Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bearsden_Roman_Bath_House_-_site_overview.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.
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