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First Contact: Rome and Northern Britain, edited by David Breeze, Lis Thoms and Derek Hall

 

Price £10.00 + £3.00 p&p.

This volume provides a summary of a conference ‘First Contact: Rome and Northern Britain’, held in Perth in the spring of 2008.  

 

Contents:

David Breeze: ‘Introduction’

 

Pete Wilson: ‘Holding the line? The Humber frontier and the expansion into                        Yorkshire reconsidered’

 

David Shotter: ‘When did the Romans invade Scotland?’

 

Rebecca Jones: ‘Chasing the army: the problems of dating temporary camps’

 

Birgitta Hoffman: ‘Cardean: the changing face of a Flavian fort in Scotland’

 

David Wooliscroft: ‘79AD and all that: when did the Romans reach Perthshire?’

 

Erik Dobat: ‘The Gask ‘system’ in Perthshire: the first artificial frontier line in the Roman empire?’

 

William Hanson: ‘The fort at Elginhaugh and its implication for Agricola’s role in the conquest of Scotland’

 

David Breeze: ‘Conclusions’