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Oblique aerial view.
C 631
Description Oblique aerial view.
Date 1992
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number C 631
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 1758639, SC 373313
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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