Tacitus records that Agricola in his fourth campaign occupied the neck of land between the Forth and Clyde estuaries with a chain of forts, proposing this as the frontier of the empire. This line later became the Antonine Wall under Antoninus Pius. The subjugation of the Lowland tribes to make this line viable required multiple small engagements across the central belt.
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