Lindon (often identified with the Roman fortlet/small fort at Drumquhassle, near Drymen on the southern edge of the Highland fringe) was a small Agricolan-period military installation, likely established c. AD 79–83 during the campaigns into Caledonia. Sitting at the western end of the line of so-called "glen-blocker" outpost forts that watched the entrances to the Highlands, it would have held an auxiliary garrison or detachment, and was probably abandoned by c. AD 87 when Roman forces withdrew from Scotland.
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Its strategic role was to monitor movement between the Highland glens and the Forth–Clyde lowlands, complementing forts such as Bochastle, Malling, Dalginross and Fendoch. As part of the Gask system's western extension, it represents the limit of Flavian territorial control in this sector.
The fort at Drumquhassle was identified through aerial photography in the 1970s, revealing rectangular ditched defences with rounded corners and internal timber buildings characteristic of Flavian forts; limited trial excavation has confirmed Agricolan dating through pottery and structural evidence, but the site has not been extensively excavated and much of the interior plan remains known only from cropmarks.
Lindon (often identified with the Roman fortlet/small fort at Drumquhassle, near Drymen on the southern edge of the Highland fringe) was a small Agricolan-period military installation, likely established c. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a fort site from the Roman period in Britain.
Lindon? is classified as a Roman fort — a military site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
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