The Plan of the Roman Fort at Dalswinton: A Comment. (November 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hodgson, Nick
• Is Part Of: Britannia. Volume 52(2021)
• Page Start: 385
• Page End: 390
• Publication Date: 2021-11
• Subjects: Dalswinton -- Scotland -- Llanfor -- fort -- plan -- ala; Great Britain -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman -- Periodicals; Romans -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 936.10305
• DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X21000155
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0068-113X

Abstract

Abstract: An alternative is proposed to the interpretation of the plan of Dalswinton Roman fort offered by W.S. Hanson and colleagues in their important study of the air-photographic, geophysical and LiDAR evidence published in Britannia in 2019. It is suggested that the larger, second-phase fort faced not east, but south, as previously thought, but that most of the remains of this layout have been removed by the plough. A suggestion is made concerning the possible garrison of the second-phase fort.