Films Set In Roman Scotland

[Lachlan09]

That must be it. Inveresk is on a ridge overlooking the River Esk and the Firth of Forth and it also dominates the main route from Edinburgh to the east (later known as the A1). Musselburgh still calls its oldest bridge over the River Esk "The Roman Bridge". It was rebuilt in the Middle Ages and widened slightly and was the bridge over which the Jacobite Army passed in 1745 en route to intercept General John Cope's force near Prestonpans. It was modified in the early 19th Century into a footbridge, whilst a new "Regency" style traffic bridge was built downstream. The Roman port may well be around where today's Fisherrow Harbour is located. If they were to dig there through the feet of deposited river silt, I'm sure they'd find Roman amphorae and glass and other artifacts.

[Lachlan09]

Though, coming to think of it, all that silt through the ages has probably pushed the coastline further out than it was in Roman times. So the Roman port is probably up near Eskside West !

[Axa]

Ooh, what I actually meant was Mark of the Horse Lord - I think it's by Mary Stewart. It's about an ex-gladiator who ends up in Scotland.

[Duthill]

Originally Posted by Axa

Ooh, what I actually meant was Mark of the Horse Lord - I think it's by Mary Stewart. It's about an ex-gladiator who ends up in Scotland.

Not Mary Stewart , Rosemary Sutcliff invented this 'history'


"Phaedrus, an enslaved gladiator in northern Britain in the first century"

"" the story of Phaedrus the Gladiator, who poses as Midir, Lord of the Dalriadain (a tribe of Northern Britain). Set during the Roman period, it describes the customs and beliefs of ancient civilizations clearly and believably"".

Believably ? yeah right .

""Sleet was still spitting down the wind, but the yellow bar of a low dawn edged the eastern sky; and as Phaedrus mounted the Crowning Stone, and with his left foot on the hide of the King Horse set his right into the deep-cut footprint that had held the right foot of every king of the Dalriadain since first they came from Erin across the Western Sea, the first sunlight struck the high snow-filled curries of distant Cruachan.""

Huh ? Did the Roman Empire jump into the Tardis and skip forward two or three hundred years , or did the Dal Riata folk slip through a wormhole in the mists of time and roll back a few centuries ?

And here we have the cover of this great hysterical work
Amazon.com: The Mark of the Horse Lord (9781932425628): Rosemary Sutcliff: Books
Note the Moko Maori worn on the shoulder of the great impostor . I'll have to let our Kaumatua know that Hawaiki Pamamao has been found , in Sutcliffland .