Carpow

[Jona Lendering]

Carpow was founded during the final years of the reign of Septimius Severus; is there any clue about the date of its evacuation?

(Something tells me Duncan knows this.)

[D B Campbell]

(Something tells me Duncan knows this.)

Two mint condition coins of AD 202/3 and a fragmentary building inscription naming Caracalla as sole emperor (probably), combined with the literary evidence that Caracalla was not keen on staying in Scotland! (The fortress is single period, so no earlier Flavian or Antonine material to contaminate the picture.)

You can access the report here (PDF); pp. 569-571 for summary.

[Jona Lendering]

Two mint condition coins of AD 202/3 and a fragmentary building inscription naming Caracalla as sole emperor (probably), combined with the literary evidence that Caracalla was not keen on staying in Scotland!

Exactly what I needed! Severus' occupation of southern Scotland probably did not last after his death in 211.

(I am writing a little piece about the "common error" that the Roman Empire reached its greatest extent under Trajan; it was of course under Severus, who added Mesopotamia and the Limes Tripolitanus. Scotland is irrelevant to my point.)