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The Plan of the Roman Fort at Dalswinton: A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2021

Nick Hodgson
Nick Hodgson*
Affiliation:
Wallsend Nick.Hodgson@Durham.ac.uk
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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.

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DalswintonScotlandLlanforfortplanala

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Britannia , Volume 52 , November 2021 , pp. 385 - 390
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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