![]() An extensive campaign of surveys, archive work, and excavation has taken place to date, twenty-seven excavations have taken place on eighteen sites. The Roman Gask Project was formed in 1996, to document the surviving evidence. This startling evidence means that the Gask Ridge frontier system in northern Scotland, supposedly started in the reign of Domitian in the AD 80s, is now seen as the prototype Roman frontier. Recent research, however, has placed its building from the mid-first century to the late-first/early-second century. Roman frontier studies have long attracted archaeological interest, and one of the major questions still facing scholars is: how did these frontiers evolve over time? Were the extensive walls and fortifications meant to last? In order to answer this question, scholars have looked to the German Limes as the prototype frontier. ![]()
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