Romans vs Caledonians: The Battle of Mons Graupius
The Ancients
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Is It a Roman Fortification?
It could be the flavian first century a d fortifications. If they are first century, as you say, if we're going by what you're saying there, they could have been constructed around that time. We just don't have firm evidence. And wee ely ina lot on roman texts. Everybody has an ulterior motive. Tacitus says, belanus is rubbish. Statius says, well, atually balanus has conquered the north. But again, that comes down to where's caledonia? We think it's generally north of the fourth clyde. There's northern england, south of adrian's wall where that gets put. So it
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