Search results
Notable figures from the Roman period in Scottish history, as depicted by the Victorian artist William Hole in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. The military presence of Rome lasted for little more than 40 years for most of Scotland and only as much as 80 years in total anywhere.
The naval forces of the ancient Roman state (Latin: classis, lit. 'fleet') were instrumental in the Roman conquest of the Mediterranean Basin, but it never enjoyed the prestige of the Roman legions.Throughout their history, the Romans remained a primarily land-based people and relied partially on their more nautically inclined subjects, such as the Greeks and the Egyptians, to build their ships.
For almost 400 years, much of what is now Scotland was either inside the empire or an uncomfortably close neighbour. These pages explore the people of Roman Scotland, from the soldiers who came here from all over the empire, to their families, and the traders and craftworkers who lived off them.
The Roman Fleet traditionally comprised four main types of units, with the smallest being specialized vessels known as “naval dust,” alongside the light Romanized Triconteres, Diconteres, and Pentaconteres utilized for liaison and reconnaissance purposes.
The Classis Britannica (literally, British fleet, in the sense of 'the fleet in British waters' or 'the fleet of the province of Britannia', rather than 'the fleet of the state of Britain') was a provincial naval fleet of the navy of ancient Rome.
10 mar 2019 · understood about the naval forces of the Roman empire and, in particular, the regional navies which actively participated in most military operations and policed the seas and rivers of the Empire. Until the mid-third century, in a British context, this navy was the Classis Britannica—a strong fighting force in its own right.
19 mar 2022 · The Roman navy was the most economical and fastest means of supplying the army in Scotland. A merchant ship carrying 1 ton of food could go 1280 miles whereas a mule could take the same weight 2.4 …
