The Roman Wall In Scotland Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Roman Wall in Scotland (Classic Reprint) written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Roman Wall in Scotland This book is the direct outcome of an invitation addressed to me two years ago by the Trustees of the Lectureship in Archaeology instituted in the University of Glasgow by the late Mr. J.D. G. Dalrymple of Woodhead. Being of opinion that the time was ripe for a fresh survey of the whole body of evidence relating to the subject, they did me the honour of requesting me to undertake the task. The six lectures of which the course consisted were delivered in the spring of 1910. They form the main strand in the thread of the following chapters, and it is accordingly the requirements of the ordinary cultivated reader, rather than those of the specialist, that have determined the plan of the volume and also the method of treatment. I am hopeful, however, that even the specialist will not be sent empty away. At all events, I have endeavoured to be thorough where thoroughness seemed desirable. And the mass of relevant material here brought together is undoubtedly much greater than anything that has up till now been conveniently accessible to students of the Antonine Vallum, while the sifting process has led to deductions which will, I trust, be accepted by competent judges as representing a permanent advance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.