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 […]
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What did the Romans do for us?
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 […]