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Oblique aerial view.

SC 360834

Description Oblique aerial view.

Date 1988

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number SC 360834

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 05501

Scope and Content Forts at Dalswinton, Bankhead, Dumfries and Galloway These Roman forts are at Dalswinton, Bankhead. There are two forts dating from the Flavian period almost exactly superimposed. 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. The forts can be seen as cropmarks in aerial photographs, such as this one. The second fort is roughly 55 m 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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