Category: Sites & Frontiers

Forts, fortlets, camps, roads, frontiers, walls, watchtowers, built infrastructure, Roman towns.

Dunning Roman Camp: evidence of a second occupation

Excavations at Dunning in Perthshire revealed substantial Roman defences and evidence that a large force returned to use the camp…
Stracathro Roman Fort – A Flavian Base in Angus

Stracathro was one of the forts anchoring Rome’s first-century presence in Angus. Beneath the churchyard and nearby fields lie defences…
Cargill Roman Fort – Soldiers at the Tay and Isla

Cargill’s Roman fort stood near the meeting of the Tay and Isla, at the foot of Strathmore. Its position makes…
Cardean Roman Fort – A Large Base at the Edge of Strathmore

Cardean occupied a strong position where the Dean Water meets the Isla. Its large enclosure and excavated timber buildings make…
Malling Roman Fort – Rome beside the Lake of Menteith

Malling’s Roman fort lay beside the Lake of Menteith, where lowland routes approach the hill country. The enclosure is hidden…
Castle Greg Roman Fortlet – A Small Post on Camilty Hill

Castle Greg is small enough for its military scale to be grasped at a glance. Its banks and ditches enclose…
Easter Happrew Roman Fort – An Early Base beside the Tweed

Easter Happrew belongs to Rome’s first-century advance through the Tweed valley. Today its remains are largely hidden, but excavation reveals…
Mollins Roman Fortlet – Before the Antonine Wall

Long before the Antonine Wall crossed central Scotland, a small Roman detachment occupied Mollins. The fortlet offers a glimpse of…
Loudoun Hill Roman Fort – A Lost Base beside the Irvine

The Roman fort near Loudoun Hill has been lost to quarrying, but excavation records preserve its story. Beside the Irvine,…
Crawford Roman Fort – Guarding the Upper Clyde Route

Crawford stands on the route linking the upper Clyde with the approaches to Annandale. Its Roman fort changed size and…
Castledykes Roman Fort – A Major Base near Carstairs

Castledykes near Carstairs was one of the substantial Roman bases of Clydesdale. Successive occupations left rebuilt defences and a wider…
Bothwellhaugh Roman Fort – Soldiers and Baths beside the Clyde

At Bothwellhaugh, Roman military history forms part of a modern park landscape. The fort occupied a strong position near the…
Raeburnfoot Roman Fort – A Small Garrison in Eskdale

Raeburnfoot’s earthworks sit in the quieter upper reaches of Eskdale. A compact Roman fort lies within a larger enclosure, making…
Milton Roman Forts – The Beattock Road through Time

Milton, near Beattock, was a place the Roman army returned to and reshaped. Its overlapping enclosures belong to a route…
Ladyward Roman Fort – A Hidden Base beside the Annan

Ladyward is a Roman fort whose outline is clearer than its history. Cropmarks reveal a defended enclosure near the meeting…
Glenlochar Roman Fort – Guarding the Dee Crossing

At Glenlochar, the River Dee and the surrounding routeways drew the Roman army back more than once. A fort, neighbouring…
Gatehouse of Fleet Roman Fortlet – A Small Post in Galloway

The Roman installation near Gatehouse of Fleet was modest: a small defended post rather than a full-sized auxiliary fort. Its…
Drumlanrig Roman Fort – Soldiers in Upper Nithsdale

Below the grandeur of Drumlanrig Castle lies an earlier expression of power: a Roman fort overlooking the Nithsdale route. The…
Dalswinton Roman Forts – Rome in the Nith Valley

The fields at Dalswinton conceal successive Roman forts overlooking a key route through the Nith valley. Their overlapping plans reveal…
Burnswark Roman Camps – An Assault on a Hillfort

Roman earthworks grip the slopes below Burnswark’s hilltop enclosure. This is one of Scotland’s most striking places to think about…