05-20-2013, 01:06 PM
Quote:Touted locations include Perthshire, to the north of the River Dee, while other historians have suggested it may have taken place in Kincardineshire or even Bennachie in Aberdeenshire.
even Bennachie! Whatever will they think of next?... :grin:
Quote:Key to his discovery was his reconstruction of a second century map to help him pinpoint the homeland of the Caledonian tribe.
Pretty hard to 'pinpoint' anything using Ptolemy's vague coordinates, surely? And Tacitus uses 'Caledonia' to mean the entire north end of Britain (as in 'the tribes inhabiting Caledonia'), so locating the specific northern tribe referred to by Ptolemy would not be of any use in locating the battle.
Plus why would a Roman fort signify a battle site? A marching camp would be more appropriate.
Nathan Ross
