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| Roman Fort continued | [continued from page 54] "had been laid up there for the use of the Roman garrison, or had been hid, during some war in later times, cannot now be known. Much of the grain was tolerably firm, and the whole of it perfectly black; but, whether it had been parched, or had contracted that colour by being so long shut up from the air in a damp place, is also uncertain." ***** These proesidia must have been very little occupied by the Romans; for, after departure of Agricola, they abandoned all their conquests in Scotland, and seem, for some time, to have had very little footing in the island of Britain. It does not appear that there were any Roman forces in Scotland from that time except in the southern parts of it, in the reign of Adrian, until the arrival of Lollius Urbicus, in the reign of Antoninus, which was a period of fifty years. Agricola usually led his army into England for winter quarters; and we can hardly suppose that he left garrisons in his proesidia, during the two winters he continued in the island after their erection. Except in three or four of them, there is scarce, throughout the whole tract, any appearance of stone buildings, nor of any conveniencies for accomadating soldiers in winter, and some of them could not have been very commodious stations even in summer. We find no inscriptions upon any of them, except what belong to the reign of Antoninus; and, if they were planted with garrisons after the wall was built in his reign, it must have been only for a short time; for, soon after, the Romans again lost all this part of the island, till the time of Severus, who, after an unsuccessful expedition into Caledonia, found it necessary to relinquish the wall of Antoninus, and fix the boundary of the empire by a new wall in the north of England." On the north of, and adjacent to, the Viaduct on the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway across the Red Burn, is a small wooded enclosure. This enclosure now contains all that is left to indicate the spot where this vast fort existed, it consists of a few inequalities in the general surface, of a very uninteresting appearance, the proprietor, the Earl of Zetland, enclosed these small remains as a memento of the past, and has forbidden his tenants molesting it. |
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