Roman Roads Map

Roman roads in Scotland

A map of the 344 km of known Roman road in this UK nation, drawn solid, dashed or dotted by how certain the route is.

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Key
  • Certain Well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m
  • Conjectured Known road, course less precisely documented
  • Hypothetical Route not pinned down, or existence uncertain
  • Secondary road Thinner line, any certainty

How accurate are these lines? Most Roman road routes on this map are approximate. The Itiner-e project, which supplies the data, classes most of them as Conjectured, so read a line as a best estimate of where the road ran rather than a surveyed route.

Roman roads in Scotland at a glance

Scotland has about 344 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 26 segments. None of it is classed as certain: almost all of it is conjectured, so the line on the map is a best estimate of the course rather than a surveyed route. One road here has a well-known name, and the longest is Dere Street. 21 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.

  • 344 kmof Roman road
  • 26segments
  • 1named road
  • 21Roman places
How certainLength (km)Share
Certain00%
Conjectured343100%
Hypothetical10%

Certain: well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m. Conjectured: known road, course less precisely documented. Hypothetical: route not pinned down, or existence uncertain.

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Named Roman roads in Scotland

The longest is the Dere Street, with 79.7 km of it in Scotland.

RoadLength in Scotland (km)
Dere Street79.7

Roman places in Scotland

21 Roman places lie on or beside the roads here. Names come from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  • Wandel
  • Trimontium
  • Ladyward Roman Fort
  • Crawford
  • Corda?
  • Blatobulgium
  • Cramond
  • Dalswinton
  • Easter Happrew Roman Fort
  • Inveresk
  • Bothwellhaugh
  • Brownhart Law
  • Cappuck
  • Drumlanrig
  • Durisdeer
  • Elginhaugh Roman fort
  • Lyne
  • Oxton
  • Redshaw Burn
  • Tassiesholm
  • Tocherknowe

Towns near Roman roads in Scotland

These are the larger towns in Scotland that lie within 5 km of a Roman road line on the map (not counting the hypothetical lines). Being close to a Roman road does not make a town Roman, but it shows where the old routes still pass by today.

  • Edinburgh
  • Hamilton
  • Motherwell
  • Cambuslang
  • Wishaw

Source

Road lines: Itiner-e (CC BY 4.0). Places: Pleiades (CC BY 3.0). Lengths are measured along the road lines inside the Scotland boundary. See all data sources and licences.

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