The area around Glasgow has hosted communities for millennia, with the River
Clyde providing a natural location for fishing. The Romans later built outposts
in the area and, to keep Roman Britannia separate from the Celtic and Pictish
Caledonia, constructed the Antonine Wall, remains of which can still be seen in
Glasgow today. Glasgow itself was founded by the Christian missionary Saint
Mungo in the 6th century. He established a church on the Molendinar Burn, where
the present Glasgow Cathedral stands, and in the following years Glasgow became
a religious centre. Its name is derived from the Gaelic
