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Ardoch Roman Fort

Braco, Perthshire

The best-preserved Roman fort earthworks in the Roman Empire.

At Ardoch, the ditches and banks of a Roman fort survive in remarkable condition, five lines deep on one side. It is often said to be among the best-preserved Roman earthwork forts anywhere in the Roman Empire.

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When
AD 80s onwards
Where
56.2500, -3.8600
Group
Roman Britain

Visiting

Free, reached from the A822 at Braco.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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