Romans in Scotland

Collected sources in one place

Fort

Bar Hill Roman Fort

  • 80 AD Possible Agricola Fort here 58 metres by 48 metres although recent excavations say this is doubtful.
  • 142 AD a new fort built 121 metres by 120 metres

Many finds here – there was a good deal of pottery, ballista balls, a copper pot, a bell, a compass leg, four ‘rude stone busts,’ walnuts, hazel nuts, oyster shells, ‘bones and skeleton heads of the short-horned Celtic ox and a few coins. These coins supported the theory that the ‘vallum was abandoned in the reign of Commodus.’

Military Units here

References

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