When the Maeatae broke the peace, Severus sent Caracalla to conduct a punitive campaign with orders to spare no one — infants in the womb were to be killed. Marching camps at Ythan Wells and Kintore in Aberdeenshire record the army passing through Taexali territory — among the most northerly confirmed Roman military sites in Britain. Severus illness became critical during this campaign and he was carried in a litter.
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