Cawdor (forte romano)

Easter Glacantray, um alegado forte romano), está situado próximo da pequena vila de Cawdor (15 milhas a leste de Inverness). Alega-se que é um forte romano, embora haja falta de evidências arqueológicas para apoiar esta alegação.^[1]

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Em 1984, o local de um suposto forte romano foi identificado em Easter Glacantray, a sudoeste de Cawdor, por fotografia aérea.^[2] Se confirmado, seria o forte romano mais conhecido no norte das Ilhas Britânicas, mas isso é altamente improvável, dado que o forte mais próximo é Stracathro, a mais de 160 km de distância.^[3] Não está confirmado que Agricola chegou tão ao norte, apesar de descobertas enganosas em Portmahomack^[4] e Tarradale nas costas norte do Beauly Firth,^[5] mas arqueólogos especializados no período romano têm sido consistentemente reticentes em confirmar a interpretação de Jones do local.^[6]

Referências

↑ Roman Fort discovery at Cawdor/Easter Galcantray
↑ G.D.B. Jones & I. Keillor, "Easter Galcantray", Discovery & Excavation Scotland 1984 (1984), p. 14: "On south bank of river Nairn, straight cropmark with gap in middle and suggestion of two more sides, truncated by river, at right angles to main mark."
↑ Roman fort near Inverness Arquivado em 2010-06-14 no Wayback Machine
↑ RCAHMS: Port A'Chaistell
↑ Google Book: Tarradale, a possible roman camp. p. 176
↑ G.S. Maxwell & D.R. Wilson, "Aerial reconnaissance in Roman Britain 1977-84", Britannia Vol. 18 (1987), pp. 1-48, at p. 34: "For the present, it may be noted that, viewed as crop-mark sites, neither [Cawdor nor Thomshill] sits happily in the established morphological categories of standard Roman military installations in North Britain". D.J. Breeze, "Why did the Romans fail to conquer Scotland?", Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 118 (1988), pp. 3-22, at p. 8: "the suggested Roman context for the sites at Easter Galcantray [Cawdor] and Thoms Hill - Daniels 1986 and Jones 1986 - fails to convince; most of the evidence from the former site would better sit within a medieval context ..."

[1] Roman Fort discovery at Cawdor/Easter Galcantray

[2] G.D.B. Jones & I. Keillor, "Easter Galcantray", Discovery & Excavation Scotland 1984 (1984), p. 14: "On south bank of river Nairn, straight cropmark with gap in middle and suggestion of two more sides, truncated by river, at right angles to main mark."

[3] Roman fort near Inverness Arquivado em 2010-06-14 no Wayback Machine

[4] RCAHMS: Port A'Chaistell

[5] Google Book: Tarradale, a possible roman camp. p. 176

[6] G.S. Maxwell & D.R. Wilson, "Aerial reconnaissance in Roman Britain 1977-84", Britannia Vol. 18 (1987), pp. 1-48, at p. 34: "For the present, it may be noted that, viewed as crop-mark sites, neither [Cawdor nor Thomshill] sits happily in the established morphological categories of standard Roman military installations in North Britain". D.J. Breeze, "Why did the Romans fail to conquer Scotland?", Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 118 (1988), pp. 3-22, at p. 8: "the suggested Roman context for the sites at Easter Galcantray [Cawdor] and Thoms Hill - Daniels 1986 and Jones 1986 - fails to convince; most of the evidence from the former site would better sit within a medieval context ..."

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