| Abstract: |
B Dobson examines Agricola's life and career (1-13), emphasizing the importance of A's early adherence to the Flavian cause, and concluding that he was not a great general. D J Breeze assesses the role of A the builder (14-24), suggesting that no innovations in design can be credited to him, and that A probably built no forts north of the Forth. G S Maxwell analyses the evidence of the temporary camps (25-54), re-examining the documentary and archaeological sources for the building and date of camps (tables of Flavian, probable and possible Flavian camps), and the evidence relating to the number of troops quartered in camps. W S Hanson considers A on the Forth-Clyde isthmus (55-68), offering a new pattern of spacing, and V A Maxfield (69-78) reports on her recent excavations at Camelon, during which a new Flavian fort, yielding terra nigra ware, was located. L J F Keppie (79-88) discusses the location of Mons Graupius, concluding that no site can be offered. S S Frere (89-97) examines the Flavian frontier in Scotland, preferring an Agricolan date for the forts north of the Forth and for the Gask Ridge-Ardoch towers. W S Hanson and L Macinnes discuss (98-113) the extent of woods and fields in N Britain in the Roman period and the timber requirements of the Iron Age peoples and the Roman army. R M Ogilvie (114) contributes an envoi. D J B |
