There's clearly a linear feature made of rocks crossing the sand that (to me) looks similar to the more eroded section of the southern end and which seems to line up with it, but there were no definitive signs that this is it. Any archaeologists/historians want to weigh in on whether this linear feature is, indeed, the northern end of the Roman ford?
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I spent this afternoon looking for the remains of a Roman ford across the Clyde at Dumbuck, just west of Glasgow. The photo on the left is the better preserved southern portion on the Renfrewshire side which I visited a couple of years ago. The two photos on the right from today from around Milton Island on the northern side.
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To solve this problem, an engineer by the name of John Golborne proposed a massive project to deepen it. Part of this involved building the Lang Dyke, a 4 metre thick training wall 2.4 kilometres in length to funnel the Clyde through a single narrow channel past the Dumbuck shallows. Completed in 1773, it helped create the deepwater channel which is still used to this day by ships sailing up the Clyde towards Glasgow.
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