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Antoninus

The Wall of Antonine. A turf entrenchment raised by the Romans from Dunglass Castle, on the Clyde, to Caer Ridden Kirk, near the Firth of Forth under the direction of Lollius Urbicus, legate of Antoninus Pius, A.D 140.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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