Archaeologists identified the artifact as a caligae, a marching boot worn in the Roman military. Caligae sandals were made of leather and nails, Bettina Tremmel, a Roman archaeologist with the ...

However, there was evidence of a previously military presence in the area in the form of a Roman marching camp. An Iron Age settlement at the Curragh was situated at the top of a rocky plateau ...

Roman soldiers were skilled builders as well as ... Two pairs joining to march in a line of 4 Two lines of four joining, marching one line behind the other to make a group of 8 Two groups of ...

an earlier first century CE Roman marching camp some two kilometres to the south-west attests to previous military presence in the area. The brooch would have arrived in Scotland at about the ...