THE ROMAN FORT AT GADDER By John Clarke The study
of Antonine's Wall from Forth to Clyde, which Sir George Macdonald revived in our day, is carried a further stage to completion in Mr. John Clarke's admirable monograph on The Roman Fort at Cadder (Glasgow : Jackson, Wylie for the Glasgow Archaeological Society, 12s. t3d.). The site of this fort was discovered by Sir George Macdonald in the glebe of the minister of Cadder, a few miles north of Glasgow, on the Forth and Clyde Canal. It has now been scientifically excavated and the results, so far as they can be interpreted, are set out by Mr. Clarke, with photographs, diagrams and a large plan. Cadder was the' sixth- station from the west end of the Wall. It was apparently occupied as a marching camp by Agricola's troops in the ,first invasion of Scotland. Then a. fort was laid out, covering a space of some three acres. The fort was destroyed, like others on the Wall, by rude Caledonians about the year 155. It was rebuilt a few -years later and again damaged, only to be restored before the final abandonment about the year 180. The diggings yielded little but foundations—for the canal makers had used most of the worked stones—and fragments of pottery. But the trained archaeologist's eyes have seen in these scanty remains the short and troubled history of Cadder Fort, which, like the other Scottish posts, proved to be too remote from the Roman babes in Britain to be held with the relatively small garrisons available.
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