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Question...	Submited By: Miss Donna Sneddon
I am a primary school teacher who is looking for a Roman times attraction to assist with the education of a Primary 4 class. The school is based in Clackmannanshire. Please can you suggest areas for day trips. I look forward to your reply. Regards

Response...	Date: 01/07/2008 Subject: Location
Don`t know how far you intend to travel and whether you will have the services of a tour guide to explain the sites ie whats to be seen and why its there and make the experience as meaningful as possible. (On a fee basis I can provide that service if required) Upstanding remains, as good as any in Scotland are not too far removed from you at Ardoch near Greenloaning/Braco north of Dunblane and in the other direction at Rough Castle on the Antonine wall at Falkirk. There are good stretches of the Antonine wall ditch at Rough Castle that youngsters love to clamber up (I know I did when I was one and I refuse to say how many years ago that was now!) Both are safe sites (safest access is probably at Rough Castle). Hope thats helped, let me know if I can be of any more assistance.

Question...	Submited By: G. Ewan
Thanks for a most interesting overview of early history of scotland and the Roman occupation. As someone at present writing a Master's dissertation on Agricola in Scotland, I'd be really pleased to have access to a bibliography and source material.Other readers might, too.

Response...	Date: 06/07/2008 Subject: General
Thanks for your question. First of all we wish you the very best with your masters dissertation. At Roman Scotland we have resisted bibliographies to date. Frankly we are magpies with information and read any and all available relevant information, then digest and consider their contents. Seldom, it must be noted do secondary sources agree on very much and in some cases the author may have a slant or a case to make. We therefore are the authors of the intellectual material that we publish, this being a considered appraisal of a wide range of sources. We only occasionally quote secondary sources but freely do from primary sources and we normally allude to the author: Tacitus, Juvenal, Ammianus, Cassius Dio etc in the text. In our service section we have links to the archive of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland which is a gold mine of reliable information while the link to the RCAHMS web site gives very detailed and reliable information and appraisal on the physical remains of Roman and related sites in Scotland. We rely heavily on these sources as well as our findings in the field as we believe the best way to write with authority on a site for instance is to walk the actual ground. Our forthcoming article on Mons Graupius will cover Agricolas last 2 years in office in some detail and we trust this might prove to be of some interest to you.

Question...	Submited By: Tony Kehoe
Driving through Fife the other day on my way to St Andrews I passed a sign to a village called SALINE , was there Roman activity in that area?

Response...	Date: 28/05/2008 Subject: Location
Saline sits in a part of Fife where we have no current knowledge of any Roman installations. Roman passage north was generally via Strathallan to the west, and Roman Scotland believes Fife was by passed in Agricolas march north (article forthcoming). Antiquaries favoured a lot of sites in Fife as Roman but the current agreed total is small. Marching camps as Bonnytown near Saint Andrews is Flavian while Edenwood and Auchtermuchty in the Howe of Fife record the passage of a later Roman force. However none of these 3 sites will have sat in splendid isolation, their contemporaries therefore remain to be found, especially as Fife is a peninsula that would have required a return journey by Roman forces operating deep in it. The small hillfort on Saline hill is not the oppidium size that seem to have acted like a magnet to Roman armies on the march.

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