Category: Sites & Frontiers
Forts, fortlets, camps, roads, frontiers, walls, watchtowers, built infrastructure, Roman towns.
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Broomholm Roman Fort
Broomholm preserves evidence of at least two fort layouts, with a smaller enclosure replacing a larger one. Their precise dates…
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Birrens Roman Fort
Visit Birrens Roman Fort 📍 Location: Birrens, near Middlebie, Dumfries and Galloway 👁 What survives: Earthworks and the fort platform…
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10 Roman Sites and Museums to Visit in Scotland
Roman Scotland is sometimes easier to miss than to see. A grassy bank may be a fort rampart; a hollow…
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Bearsden Bath House
Built by the 20th Legion around 142 AD and occupied to 165 AD Bearsden Fort has yielded a wealth of…
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Headquarters Building
The Headquarters Building (Principia) is in the centre of Roman forts. This is the largest building in the fort. The…
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Roman Fort
All Roman forts and camps across the empire followed the same basic layout for hundreds of years with minor alterations…
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Lyne Fort near Peebles
Lyne Roman Fort is on unspoilt land used for grazing, and many features are viewable 2000 years later. It is…
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Castlecary Fort
Castlecary is securely an Antonine fort. Earlier finds have prompted discussion of an earlier occupation, but they do not by…
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Tracing Scotland’s unique place in the Roman world
This BBC interview is with Dr Andrew Tibbs who has carried out a digital survey of almost 100 sites thought…
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Reconstructing Roman Carlisle: Fort Life on a shifting frontier
The tree-ring dating of timbers in the south rampart demonstrated that Carlisle fort was founded in AD 72-73, towards the…
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Excavation of Carlisle Roman bathhouse uncovers fascinating finds
A Roman bathhouse was discovered in 2017, on a site based within the grounds of Carlisle Cricket Club in Stanwix.…
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Romans, Rivers and Valleys
On a visit to the huge Roman camp near Cupar on the River Eden, I wondered how the Romans managed…
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Find Romans in Your Area of Scotland
The map above shows all the information on Romans in Scotland and lets you see what is in your area;…
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Romans in Your Town
Explore Roman archaeology around Edinburgh, Falkirk, Musselburgh, Peebles, Perth and Stirling. Use local guides and smartphone maps to discover forts,…
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Roman Perth
The map below shows all the Roman finds in Perth registered on Canmore. Allows you to walk around town and…
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An Amphitheatre in Camelon?
The existence of amphitheatres outside the legionary fortresses and many of the Roman civitas (tribal) capitals in Britain is well…
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Roman Falkirk
In 79 AD, Agricola invaded Scotland with four legions of soldiers passing through Falkirk and using the fort at Camelon.…
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Roman Peebles
The Romans used riverways to transport goods, as this was the most efficient way to move large amounts of goods,…
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Roman Stirling
It is thought that there was a Roman fort here but evidence is hard to come with the building of…
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Torres Brigantium ( Tower of Hercules)
In the History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) 858 AD by Nennius it is said the people of Scotland came from…
