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A newspaper article from nearly 250 years ago! From the Middlesex Journal London, May 17th – 19th 1770. “A few days ago, while some labourers were employed in sinking a well at Blantyre in Scotland, they dug up a couple of copper vessels full of antique Roman silver coins, struck in the reign of Augustus.” The […]
Incredibly, there is some documented evidence of Roman settlement or commerce here in Blantyre. We’re just about as far North as the Romans managed to get, with a documented settlement at Strathclyde Park. However, in 1929, a local Blantyre boy found a Roman coin on the site of the current HSBC in Hamilton Technology Park […]