The Legacy of Rome: Scotland's Roman Remains

by Keppie Lawrence and Lawrence Keppie

Book Overview

As an outpost of empire, Scotland played a significant, if unusual, role in the Roman world. The south and east were occupied intermittently from AD 79 to the early third century, while the north and west remained outside Roman control, though certainly not beyond its influence. The conquest was therefore incomplete in Scotland, and military occupation was not followed up by a period of peaceful development; no towns were built, and surviving remains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912476940
• ISBN13: 9781912476947
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Origin
• Length: 232 Pages