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Returning to Dumyat for Maeatae dig
Stirling Observer
|June 13, 2025
DIGGING INTO THE PAST with Dr Murray Cook
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So you've all heard the Maeatae right?
You know Dumyat (the Fort of the Maeatae), the tribe that resisted Rome around 210.
These Iron Age Wallaces are said to have killed 50,000 Roman Legionaries and Rome's response was to order the only recorded genocide in Scottish history.
We're not exactly sure if it happened.
This story is from the June 13, 2025 edition of Stirling Observer.
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