Roman Roads of Scotland

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The Romans built roads to help move troops around Scotland as well as occupy the soldiers stationed here as they spent most of their time not fighting. An interactive map showing forts and roads can be found here ( roads are faint red line – you need to zoom in) https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1Nca047ew5UeUsgIvZpCIa9fGiJOJb7w&usp=sharing

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By Andrei nacu at English Wikipedia – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Gpedro. Mason (2001), p. 128. Valeria Victrix was based at Deva Victrix., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3575904

Dere Street	MId 1St Cent AD	Corbridge to Cramond
Fosse Way	Mid 1st Cent AD	Exeter to Lincoln
Watling Street	Mid 1st Cent AD	Dover to Wales
Stanegate	1st – 2nd Cent. AD	Hadrians Wall Road

This site http://www.oldroadsofscotland.com/historical%20period1.htm deals with the history of roads and tracks in Scotland.

Source: Old Roads of Scotland