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Oblique aerial view.

SC 1758639

Description Oblique aerial view.

Date 1992

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number SC 1758639

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 631

Scope and Content Roman forts at Dalswinton, Bankhead, Dumfries and Galloway Two forts dating from the Flavian period are built on top of one another. The smaller of the two is earlier, but there does not seem to have been a break in occupation when the larger one was built. Both forts are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The second fort is roughly 55m longer than its predecessor. The lines of the defences, and some of the internal detail, can be distinguished in this image. The forts have been excavated and the finds are now in Dumfries Museum. Both the forts are big enough to hold cavalry units. The Ala Petriana, the largest auxiliary cavalry unit known in Britain, may have been based in the later fort. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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