4.2 miles/6.8km
2.5 hours
Easy
76m
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Span engineering history from the ancient Greeks and Romans to the 21st century on this time-travelling trail.
Admire Archimedes’ (287–212 BCE) principle in action in thedefensive engineering at the Antonine Wall (142AD), before marvelling at the 21st-century wonder that is the Falkirk Wheel, the world’s only rotating boat lift, designed to carry narrowboats from the Forth and Clyde Canal up to the Union Canal.
