New research is highlighting the extraordinary extent of what the Romans built in Scotland.
BBC Scotland correspondent
It happened at a time when the Romans may have thought they could conquer the whole of the country and before they built Hadrian's Wall and the later Antonine Wall in a bid to secure the empire's north-western border."Several emperors are keen to do it because it's a part of the country that's never been conquered.
It combines remote sensing techniques with existing archaeological and historical data and precise details of the terrain held in a digital geographical information system. This network of forts and camps allowed the Romans to manage the corridor of land they were advancing through without having to control the entire landscape.Dr Tibbs says there is a record of a night attack in which all the soldiers in a fort were massacred.Image caption,
"No fort on a site of his choosing was ever taken by storm, ever capitulated, or was ever abandoned".
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