Dr David Woolliscroft with a map of the Roman fort.
Posted on 08/31/2012 6:27:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Dr David Woolliscroft with a map of the Roman fort.
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They’ll find a Roman outhouse and some Roman Soldier will have written, “Centurion Flavius is an excrement head!”
Joe is the same throughout time.
Thanks FN, nice pic!
It’s maddening when the writer of articles like these mentions a fact like “the most unusual Roman fort gate in the world found only in Scotland’ and then fails to give some details on why the gate is unusual and rare. GRRRRR!
It’s made entirely out of local bricks, which were kiln-baked near the site. The records indicate that they needed so many that the Roman overseer kept shouting “more clay! more clay!”
Okay, yes, it wasn’t worth the setup.
:’)
Roman Legionnaire reenactors. Image: Hans Splinter
This line was to run along the hills south of the Highlands Massif, which would place all the Lowlands, including Fife, under Roman rule. It makes sense if you want all the best land for Rome, but it would make for a much less defensible line than the Antonine.
Thanks colorado tanker.
Ale, Caesar! Romans and Caledonian tribes went to pub together
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/ale-caesar-romans-and-caledonian-tribes-went-to-pub-together-1-2514282
The Gask Ridge frontier system is the earliest Roman land frontier in Britain, built in the 70s AD, 50 years before Hadrian's Wall and 70 years before the Antonine Wall. Since German archaeologists have now re-dated the start of their frontier to the Trajanic period 20 years later, it now seems that the Gask system is the first Roman land frontier anywhere.
You sure it wasn’t “more peat!, more peat!” ?
And he shouted it until he was blue in the face.
/rimshot!
The Roman occupation of Strathearn saw the construction of the first recognizable road system as the occupants in their established tradition built a road system to enable communication between their various outposts . The road over the Langside from Braco to Comrie connected the main camp at Ardoch with the Dalginross “ glen blocker “ . The Gask Ridge represented a frontier of forts and watch towers stretching from Ardoch to Bertha where lies modern Inveralmond . The Romans constructed a military road to connect these various outposts and these have been partially excavated as part of an ongoing research programme undertaken by Dr DW Wooliscroft and a team of archaeologists many of whom are from Liverpool University .
The Story of Transport in the Strath
Maybe I am just dense. I read the entire article at your link, but I did not see anything there to indicate that the natives were coming to the “pub” that is described. Perhaps the building was just a well-designed mess hall.
Which sword would you rather wield?
A claymore or a peatmore?
I think it may have been a wee joke.
Thanks for explaining that, I had *no idea* what my original joke was about. [blush]
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