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The most northerly roman fort investigated
#16
Quote:The Gask ridge appears to protect Fife did it not!?
That's what the "Rome's First Frontier" brigade would like you to think. I'm not sure that it "protected" anything, except the convoys trundling up from Ardoch to Bertha and back.
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#17
Actually, that is exactly what I was thinking! As you say, I did read
that Fife bit in a book though! Wink

I've been to ardoch, where exactly is Bertha?
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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#18
Quote:where exactly is Bertha?
Google Maps. (I should've kept this one for the "Quiz" thread!)
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#19
Hmmm, must be me , but I can't see a ...... Thing there
Duncan! :-| Not as obvious as Ardoch I guess?
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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#20
Quote:Not as obvious as Ardoch I guess?
No, it's a cropmark site, Byron. (It's been excavated, too.)
[attachment=5061]Bertha_Roman-fort.jpg[/attachment]
(I should definitely have kept this for the "Quiz"!)


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#21
Thanks. I was too fixated by the pin on the road! :oops:

To be fair though, calling it a fort seems stretching it a bit!
Looks more like a marching camp to be honest!
But that's just me! Smile
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
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#22
Bertha is here :

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In Dutch, Bertha is a female cow's pet name... Wink

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#23
here's a bit more with pics;
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/...n-frontier
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#24
What about the potential for forts at Thomshill, Easter Galcantray and Tarradale?
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