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

Out of print

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

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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