ABSTRACT
The large majority of the monuments found beyond the Cheviots may be dated to the years of Antoninus Pius following the conquests of Lollius Urbicus; there is hardly anything from the time of Marcus Aurelius; and absolutely nothing from that of Commodus. The reason why Roman conquest never bit deep in the Lowlands would seem to have been that about the end of the reign of Pius, in the governorship of Julius Verus the last great revolt of the Brigantes took place. The Brigantian rising may have been simultaneous with troubles further North or posterior to them: one have no authorities to tell them which was cause and which effect, any more than one have information as to the details of the strife. All one might know is that in the times of Domitian and Trajan, there was bitter trouble in all the lands that Agricola had conquered, and that the Brigantes were perpetually in arms.
