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Dere
Street Roman Road, Soutra
Beside Soutra Aisle, just off the A68, 73 NT 452 580
The
Roman's built roads across the south of Scotland to service their
forts and the Antonine Wall. Here at Soutra a fine section of Roman
road known as Dere Street is preserved. It ran from Hadrian鈥檚 Wall
at Corbridge to the Roman fort and port at Crammond on the Forth.
Along the side of the road are pits that supplied the gravel used
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Roman
Bridge
Strathclyde Country Park, 3366 Hamilton Road, Motherwell, The
park is located between junction 5 and Junction 6 on the M74 Access
is on the A725 or A73.
Bridges were another Roman feat of engineering unknown in Iron Age
Scotland. One of them has survived where the roman road crosses
the Clyde, near Motherwell.
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Marching
Camps
Roman Site: Blackhall Camps, Ardoch
Half a mile north of Braco, 58 NN 840 109
Parts of the defences of two Roman marching camps, probably dating
to Severan’s campaign in the early third century AD.
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