Allen, J: Reliquary and Illustrated Archæologist, Vol. 12

Excerpt from The Reliquary and Illustrated Archæologist, Vol. 12: A Quarterly Journal and Review Devoted to the Study of the Early Pagan and Christian Antiquities of Great Britain; Medieval Architecture and Ecclesiology; The Development of the Arts and Industries of Man in the Past Ages

To the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus, Augustus, Pius, Father of. His country, the second legion, the Augustan, made [the vallum] for 4652 passus. It is to be regretted that it seems likely the Society of Antiquaries may suspend operations meantime, as their financial reserves are not unlimited.

Mr. Andrew Lang, in his new history of Scotland, rather belittles the in¿uence of the Romans on early Scotland. This is hardly grateful, if we have to thank them for the beginnings of our civilisation, and if they did not bring Christianity, at least they paved the way for it. Mr. Haverfield mentions that the forts of the vallum, the outlying post of Ardoch, the three forts along the great south road (cramond, Newstead, and Cappuck), and perhaps even Birrens, the whole land north of the Cheviots must have been lost before or about a.d. 180. If someone with the necessary learning, ability, and enthusiasm would set to work and prepare a monograph covering all that is known of the Roman occupation in Scotland, the work would fill an apparent gap. What Dr. J. C. Bruce did in his handbook to the English Wall should be done for Scotland, wherein the scattered reports of all the societies might be analysed and digested, and the results of the latest finds duly chronicled. The book ought to be well illustrated. The valuable body of literature covering this field.

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