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Castellum A
castellum in
Latin is usually: a
small Roman fortlet or tower, a
diminutive of
castrum ('military camp'),
often used as a
watchtower or signal...
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further north. The
Antonine Wall was
protected by 16
forts with
small fortlets between them;
troop movement was
facilitated by a road
linking all the...
- and
examined in two
excavation campaigns in 1894 and 1901. The
Roman fortlet "Am Forsthofweg" is an
almost square earthwork. With its side
lengths of...
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section of the
Roman Antonine Wall and the only
example of an
Antonine fortlet with
visible remains. The
lands of
Kinneil with
Larbert and
Auldcathy were...
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Forts and
Fortlets ****ociated with the Gask
Ridge from
south to
north Balmuildy, Cadder, Castlecary, Mumrills, Camelon, Drumquh****le, Malling, Doune, Glenbank...
- encampments, and "marching" forts. The
diminutive form
castellum was used for
fortlets,
typically occupied by a
detachment of a
cohort or a centuria. Castrum...
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Birgitta Hoffmann and
David Woolliscroft. The
ridge fortifications: forts,
fortlets and
watchtowers were only in
operation for a few years,
probably fewer...
- the west and
Kirkintilloch to the east
although there are
intermediate fortlets at
Wilderness Plantation to the west and
Glasgow Bridge to the east. The...
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spine of rock
known as the Gask Ridge, once the site of a line of
Roman fortlets and
signal towers. It is a
geographical feature that
stretches several...
- line, with the
reduction in the size of the
forts and the
addition of
fortlets and
watchtowers between them, seem to have
taken place from the mid-90s...
