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Burnswark Hill: the opening shot of the Antonine reconquest of Scotland?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2019

John H. Reid
Affiliation:
Trimontium Trust, Melrose, [email protected]
Andrew Nicholson
Affiliation:
Dumfries and Galloway Council, [email protected]

Extract

This paper represents an interim report of the Burnswark Project that has utilised the techniques of battlefield archaeology to locate and accurately identify missiles across a substantial field of conflict in SW Scotland. The distribution, characteristics, dating and proposed historical context of these missiles are argued to support their use in a dramatic episode of ‘exemplary force’ by the Roman army. The magnitude of the event might be seen to be compatible with an emperor establishing his legitimacy as a military leader.

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Copyright © Journal of Roman Archaeology L.L.C. 2019 

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