Domitian withdrew the Second Adiutrix Legion from Britain to fight the Dacians — immediately reducing Agricola's successor's forces. Inchtuthil — a vast legionary fortress in Perthshire barely completed — was systematically demolished and abandoned. One million nails were buried to deny them to the enemy. The archaeology of Inchtuthil's organised demolition shows this was not a retreat under fire but a painful strategic withdrawal. Further raids by the Maeatae and Caledonians forced a further pullback to the Tyne-Solway line.
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