Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2012
The written history of the Roman operations in Caledonia is incomplete and shadowy. In the Agricola the legions march across the stage fighting victoriously, but the natives, except in the battle of Mons Graupius, hardly emerge from the forests and the marshes. In recent years not a little has been done to shed clearer light on the Roman campaigns. Roads have been traced, remains of forts have been recovered and laid bare, periods of occupation have been worked out, and the collection of relics becomes daily larger and of greater importance. Looking over the material which has been gathered together in the past ten years, the question naturally suggests itself: has the investigation of Roman sites in Scotland resulted in any corresponding increase in our knowledge of the native population against whom these campaigns were directed? To this, it seems, the answer must be in the affirmative.
page 100 note 1 Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxxii, p. 461, fig. II.
page 100 note 2 ibid. xxxv, pl. A, fig. I.
page 101 note 1 Macdonald and Park, The Roman Forts on the Bar Hill, fig. 33 (4), fig. 34.
page 101 note 2 Bulleid and Gray, The Glastonbury Lake-village, fig. 99.
page 102 note 1 Curle, A Roman Frontier Post, pl. xxxiv, fig. 8.
page 104 note 1 Archaeologia, lxii, p. 101.
page 104 note 2 Bulleid and Gray, op. cit. p. 266.
page 104 note 3 A Roman Frontier Post, pl. lxviii.
page 105 note 1 A Roman Frontier Post, pl. xci, figs, I, 3 and 5.
page 106 note 1 British Museum Guide to the Antiquities of the Early Iron Age, fig. 127.
page 106 note 2 Boyd Dawkins, “The Ancient roads connected with Melandra,” Melandra Castle, p. 7.
page 109 note 1 Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. x, p. 476; xi, p. 305; xii, p. 669.
page 109 note 2 Macdonald and Park, op. cit. p. 121.
page 109 note 3 Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xliii, p. 243.
page 111 note 1 Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. i, pp. 213, 217.
page 111 note 2 ibid. viii, p. 105.
page 111 note 3 ibid. xxxiv, p. 202.
page 111 note 4 ibid. viii. p. 473.
page 112 note 1 Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxvi, p. 68.
page 113 note 1 Munro, Ancient Scottish Lake-dwellings, p. 45.
page 113 note 2 ibid. p. 68.
page 113 note 3 ibid. p. 158.
page 113 note 4 ibid. p. 190.
page 114 note 1 Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxxiii, p. 384.