Editing Bo'ness (section)

===Roman history===
[[File:Romanwallinscotl00macduoft raw 0409.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Right-hand panel of the [[Bridgeness Slab]] showing a [[suovetaurilia]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Macdonald |first=Sir George |year=1934 |title=The Roman wall in Scotland |place=Oxford |publisher=The Clarendon Press |pages=362–365 |edition=2d ed., rev., enl., and in great part rewritten |url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3760345;view=2up;seq=508;size=150 |access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref>]]
Bo'ness has important historical links to the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] period and marks the eastern extent of the [[Antonine Wall]] (at [[Carriden House|Carriden]] in the north-east of Bo'ness) which stretched from Bo'ness to [[Old Kilpatrick]] on the west coast of Scotland. The Antonine Wall was named as an extension to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site by UNESCO in July 2007. A Roman fortlet can still be seen at [[Kinneil House|Kinneil]] to the west of Bo'ness.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/index/policyandguidance/world_heritage_scotland/antoninewall.htm |publisher=Historic Scotland |title=Looking after our heritage – The Antonine Wall}}</ref>

Roman artefacts, some with inscriptions, have been found in the eastern part of the town at Carriden. A Roman fort called ''Veluniate,'' long since lost to history, once stood on the site now occupied by the grounds of [[Carriden House]]. Indeed, it is said that stones from the fort were used in the building of the [[mansion]] house.

Several artefacts have been uncovered over the years by the local farming community, including the [[Bridgeness Slab]] with many of them now on display in the [[National Museum of Scotland]] or at the [[Hunterian Museum]] in Glasgow.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stone window fragments, Carriden|date=15 December 2014 |url= https://vimeo.com/114540798|access-date=22 October 2017}}</ref> A replica was unveiled by Bo'ness Community Council and [[Falkirk]] Council on 7 September 2012 in Kinningars Park. A video about its history and manufacture is available online.<ref>{{cite web |title=Roman film now online |url= https://kinneil.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/roman-film-now-online/ |website=Kinneil Estate, Bo'ness |date=15 April 2015 |access-date=22 October 2017}}</ref> Other Roman sites have been identified at Muirhouses (known locally as 'The Murrays') and Kinglass on the south-east side of the town.
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