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30 mar 2022 · The purpose of Roman Roads in Scotland was to facilitate the movement of troops and supplies, Roman Scotland being primarily a military affair. In the first year of Roman campaigning in Scotland, no roads as such existed.
Scotland during the Roman Empire refers to the protohistorical period during which the Roman Empire interacted within the area of modern Scotland. Despite sporadic attempts at conquest and government between the first and fourth centuries AD, most of modern Scotland, inhabited by the Caledonians and the Maeatae , was not incorporated into the ...
1924 Second subdivision and first major land sale on Scotland Island, with streets named after the developer’s family members. 1928 Goddards built ferry Elvina, surveyed to carry 27 passengers and now believed to be the longest serving ferry in N.S.W.
William Roy's 'Military Antiquities of the Romans in North Britain' (1793) is a classic work on the military conquest of Scotland by the Romans. This website is a complete electronic facsimile of the original. Many newly-discovered Roman remains were recorded in the volume for the first time.
In AD 83 the fleet was used to soften the position in Scotland by making lightning raids up the east coast; it also discovered the Orkney islands. In the campaign against the Germans the Rhine played a major role.
By the early 1770s, Roy was able to compile his material on antiquities together, and in 1773 he published his Map of Roman Scotland (Plate I), showing all the sites known to him. However, this was the only map from the Military Antiquities... published in Roy's lifetime.
The navy was clearly a vital element in the supply chain, as indicated by the rebuilding of (coastal) South Shields as a massive grain store, the reoccupation of (coastal) Cramond and the use (new or continuing) of the coastal fortress at Carpow.
