Finds & Inscriptions – Romans in Scotland

A Roman Brooch with a Scottish Story

A remarkable brooch from Pathhead, Midlothian, reveals how Roman influences and local artistic traditions could meet in Iron Age Scotland.

The Roman army never permanently occupied Moray in the way that it occupied parts of southern and central Scotland. Yet…

Found in Austria in 1902, the Latin on this stone says “.rutius Caledo(nis) … an(norum) LX, hic situs est. Vasso…

The god Hercules Magusanus appearing on an altar near Falkirk is a combined god mixing the Graeco-Roman divine hero Hercules and the local…

Meet the people who lived in Roman Scotland Roman historians tell us about emperors, governors, invasions and battles. Inscriptions tell…

At first glance, the John Bayne monument in Greyfriars Churchyard looks like a striking piece of 17th-century Scottish funerary art.…

A short National Museums Scotland film introduces remarkable carved altars from Inveresk.

Built into the walls of Hailes House was a Roman carving examined in the 19th Century. The stone was then…

For a long time, people thought all the ancient Roman and Greek statues were pure white, like the bare marble…

This stone altar from Newcastle has a very distinctive carving from 2000 years ago. It reads ” To Neptune the…

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24980488.archaeologists-probe-mystery-roman-offering-ancient-scottish-site/

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24980488.archaeologists-probe-mystery-roman-offering-ancient-scottish-site/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/an-ancient-statue-of-a-roman-emperor-will-finally-be-reunited-with-its-head-180985662/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/frankfurt-germany-silver-amulet-christianity-b2665508.html

I was wandering round my local heritage centre today when I saw a carving on the floor. It was upside…

Here is a selection of maps showing coins found in Scotland. It doesn’t mean the Romans were in that place;…

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj4q4lyg1do

Coin hoards have been found all over Scotland. These may have been payments to tribes, lost by Romans or simply…

To celebrate victory over the Dacians (Romanians) a sculptured column was erected in Rome in AD 113 with picture panels…

In 1771 when the Forth Clyde canal was being built four altars were found intact near the Antonine fort of…