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SCOTLAND – ROME’S FINAL FRONTIER (2016)

This TV show tells us a remarkable story about how Scotland became the toughest military challenge for the Roman Empire and how they resisted the forces of the Roman Empire. At the height of its power, Rome dominated millions of people and vast tracts of lands as far as east as Syria, Egypt in the south, Spain in the west, and Germanic in the north.

In 43 AD Emperor Claudius' forces invaded and conquered Britain but there was one small part of these barbarian land that wasn’t so easy to destroy. So in the 78 AD, the most powerful army arrived in Caledonia. The roman invasion, however, rise superpower took on the tribes of Scotland. A conflict in ancient history but a conflict resonates with their own world. A battle between empire against its substance. A battle of control a division of conquest. The story begins in North Africa at the ancient Roman city of Volubilis in Morocco, the southwest corner of the empire.

Visiting Scotland’s most extraordinary Roman sites and illuminating new archaeology, historian Dr. Fraser Hunter looks back on three centuries of contact and conflict with the Roman invaders and shows how Scotland and its people defied the onslaught of Roman imperial power might for over a century. The first Tay Bridge, the first depiction of tartan and forgotten Roman camps that once held thirty-five thousand men. A story of a superpower pitted against tribesmen and warlords.

Then, Rome’s failure to formally incorporate Caledonia into the Empire seems to have been down to overreach – Rome had too many higher priorities. While Rome demonstrably overpowered the natives in open battle and sieges, the resources required to maintain Caledonian campaigns, combined with the absence of a  native tribal structure they could deal with and tough terrain, meant the Romans were actually chasing shadows. In the end, Rome contained Caledonia through the use of walls, bribes, and local mercenaries.

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