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Vindolanda, a fort on the Stanegate Roman road pre-dating Hadrian's Wall nearby, with exceptional Roman finds in its museum Vindobala , Roman fort at Rudchester Whitley Castle , also known as Epiacum, a Roman fort at the southern edge of Northumberland on the Maiden Way Roman road, with remarkable earthen ramparts
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Cawdor Roman Fort is near Inverness, exactly at the top northern limit of the "Lowlands". Cawdor (Roman Fort), located near the small village of Easter Galcantray (15 miles or 24 kilometres east of Inverness), was suspected of being one of the northernmost Roman forts in Great Britain, although no evidence of Roman occupation has been found to date.
Coria was a fort and town 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Hadrian's Wall, in the Roman province of Britannia.It was strategically located on the junction of a major Roman north–south road (Dere Street) with the River Tyne and the Roman Stanegate road, which was also the first frontier line which ran east–west between Coria and Luguvalium (the modern Carlisle).
The earliest Roman forts at Vindolanda were built of wood and turf. [3] The remains are now buried as much as 13 ft (4 m) deep in the anoxic waterlogged soil. There are five timber forts, built (and demolished) one after the other. The first, a small fort, was probably built by the 1st Cohort of Tungrians about 85 AD.
The best preserved but also one of the smallest forts is Rough Castle Fort. In addition to the forts, there are at least nine smaller fortlets, very likely on Roman mile spacings, which formed part of the original scheme, some of which were later replaced by forts. [10] The most visible fortlet is Kinneil, at the eastern end of the Wall, near ...
Castra (pl.) is a Latin term used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire for a military 'camp', and castrum (sg.) [1] for a 'fort'. [2] Either could refer to a building or plot of land, used as a fortified military base.
The Roman amphitheatre at Trimontium, with the modern Leaderfoot Viaduct behind. It took the Romans almost four decades, from the invasion of 43 AD and subsequent conquest of southern & eastern Britain, followed by expansion into northern England and Wales, for them to be closing in on southern Scotland [1] when the fort was first constructed.