![]() Woolliscroft and Hoffman produced a detailed, scholarly work examining all of the Gask Ridge frontier system in northern Scotland from an archaeological perspective, providing extensive maps and illustrations of all surviving evidence, along with some reconstructions and arguments: reasons why the Romans chose to build certain fortifications and towers at certain locations, as well as hypotheses concerning why and when they may have abandoned this line of defense. Hoffman, Rome’s First Frontier: The Flavian Occupation of Northern Scotland, BMCR 2006.11.17.) Another book on Roman frontiers in Britain has recently been published by David Breeze, and this review will not only examine its relative merits but will also compare and contrast its content with that of Woolliscroft and Hoffman 2006.įirst of all, while these two books are related by their content, their audiences and approach to the topic are very different. In 2006 I reviewed a study of Rome’s expansion into northern Scotland in the first through third centuries which indicated that the Gask Ridge frontier system, rather than the German Limes frontier, is now considered the prototype Roman frontier. ![]() Judging by the number of publications that seem to be appearing recently, Roman frontier studies are a hot topic in current archaeological circles. ![]()
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