Elginhaugh Roman fort

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Scott Vanderbilt

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette

Last modified Mar 11, 2025 11:21 AM — History

tags: dare:feature=fort, fort

Site of the most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort (with annexe) in the Roman Empire, situated in present-day Midlothian, Scotland. Roman occupation was short-lived, having been established in the early 70s CE and abandoned in or shortly after 86. Now completely built over by the Royal Bank of Scotland Data Centre.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/217976835

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
55.8943592662, -3.08564182094

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- OSM location of Elginhaugh Roman fort (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Place type:
fort

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Suggested citation:
Scott Vanderbilt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, and Maxime Guénette, 'Elginhaugh Roman fort: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/217976835> [accessed: 18 June 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/217976835 |title=Places: 217976835 (Elginhaugh Roman fort) |author=Vanderbilt, S. |accessdate=June 18, 2025 10:50 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}