Posted on 08/30/2008 1:01:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists have uncovered a small - but vital - clue to the use of a chariot in Moray. The piece for a horse harness was found during the latest dig at an Iron Age site at Birnie, near Elgin. Dr Fraser Hunter, of the National Museums of Scotland, said it was further evidence of the high status of its inhabitants. Excavations would have been unlikely at Birnie if not for the discovery of Roman coins 10 years ago. Glass beads that may have been made at Culbin Sands, near Nairn, in the Highlands, a dagger and quern stones for making flour have also been found previously... The horse-drawn transport and equipment may have come from the south of Scotland, or north England. Another new find was a Roman coin linked to two hordes of silver coins found in the 1990s... Dr Hunter... believes the money was brought by Roman emissaries, who travelled up the north east coast by ships. Birnie, which is south of the Moray Firth and set in rolling arable farmland, was beyond the frontier of the Roman Empire.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Roman fort will be centrepiece of new tourist attractionOne of Britain's most important Roman sites -- the remains of a fort on the outskirts of Edinburgh -- will be opened up permanently to the public within months, The Scotsman has learned... Work carried out over the last few days in the shadow of Cramond Kirk has opened up the remains of the fort, which dates back to 142AD, once again. The new work will include uncovering parts of the fort, which is thought to have once housed more than 1,000 men, for the first time, including its gatehouse, and former grain stores. It is hoped the archaeological project will not only unearth new treasures but will shed new light on whether the Romans actually stayed in the area longer than already thought... A similar project will then be carried out on the nearby remains, which are currently below ground, of a Roman bathhouse, discovered in the mid-1970s, which is widely regarded as the best-surviving Roman building in Scotland... The new attraction will recount the famous story of the Cramond Lioness sculpture, discovered 11 years ago by a ferryman in the nearby River Almond. It can currently be seen in the National Museum of Scotland. Historians believe the fort was originally constructed as an outpost of the Antonine Wall, on the frontier of an empire during the campaigns of Emperor Antoninus Pius around 142-144 AD.
by Brian Ferguson
Friday, August 29th 2008
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There's a second, unrelated story, also from Scotland, regarding an Antonine Wall Roman fort that is to be opened to the public. I posted it in message one of this thread, rather than starting a separate thread. |
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Although the Romans never conquered the peoples of the North of Scotland, they made several journeys to the Moray Firth coast. Suspected Roman forts have been discovered at Thomshill, Birnie, near Elgin and at Easter Galcantray, Cawdor, Nairnshire and also a suspected marching camp at Wester Alves, Moray.[1]
The Greco-Roman astronomer and geographer, Claudius Ptolemaeus, generally known as Ptolemy (c. 90 – c. 168), describes in chapter 2 of his Geographa entitled Albion Island of Britannia the mouth of the River Lossie as ostium Loxa Fluvius. Settlement in this area has a long history..
There was seagoing trade with Britain long before the Romans, and of course, the various historical invading groups got there by ship. Agricola conquered much of Scotland, and circumnavigated it, and the intention was to conquer the Highlands in the next year or so, but the Empire had other things more important. Probably there was an intent to scoop up Ireland as well.
The Romans in Ireland
Archaeology Today | 2000? | L.A. Curchin
Posted on 07/18/2004 8:54:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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