The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . ingularlysculptured base of a column figured here; but these chance discoveriesleave little room to doubt tliat a systematic trenching of the area ofthe fort would amply repay the antiquary for his labour. Thus minute and circumstantial is the information still recoverableat this distance of time regarding the Roman colonists of century yields up some further additional records, and were wein possession of all the inscriptions graven on votive altars or set upon tablets and centurial stones, we would possess more ample andauthe
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . ingularlysculptured base of a column figured here; but these chance discoveriesleave little room to doubt tliat a systematic trenching of the area ofthe fort would amply repay the antiquary for his labour. Thus minute and circumstantial is the information still recoverableat this distance of time regarding the Roman colonists of century yields up some further additional records, and were wein possession of all the inscriptions graven on votive altars or set upon tablets and centurial stones, we would possess more ample andauthentic elements for the history of the Roman occupation of Scot-land than all that classic historians supply. Sufficient, however, hasbeen preserved to furnish a very remarkable contrast between the The preservation of this Scoto-lloman after it had been in vain offered to tlie cuva-vilic is due to the zeal of John Buchanan, tors of the Huuterian Museum, as an ap-Ksq., its present possessor, who socurel it propriate addition toits llonian 378 THE TEUTONIC OK IRON PERIOD. relics of tlie Roman invasion and every other class of the archaeolo-gical records of primitive Scottish history. The whole of the legionary inscriptions and nearly all the altars andother remarkable Roman remains found on the line of the ancientvallum, have been discovered at its western end. No railway or othergreat public work has traversed its eastern course. The sites of itsforts arc uncertain or altogether unknown, and its famous Benval isnot yet so entirely settled as to preclude all controversy, should an-tiquaries think the theme worthy of further contest. From time totime some new discovery adds to our materials for the history of tlieRoman occupation of Scotland, and many recoids of the builders ofthe ineffectual rampart of Antoninus probably still lie imbedded be-neath its ruined course. It is more important for our present pur-pose to observe that the discoveries which have been made on
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