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- 1770s (Creation)
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2 volumes
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Numbered as MS 22 and 22a in the 1832 Catalogue of Anderson's Library.
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Contains a detailed account of the Roman conquest of Britain, description of the Antonine Wall and the Roman artefacts excavated there. Anderson refers to the ongoing building of the Forth and Clyde Canal and the antiquities discovered by the builders at Castlecary and elsewhere along the route of the canal. Some of the essays were delivered as papers to the Literary Society of Glasgow College, possibly in 1771 and 1773.
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- English
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Published as "Observations upon Roman antiquities discovered between the Forth and Clyde." Edinburgh: Foulis, 1800. Copy in Anderson Collection of books, Andersonian Library, University of Strathclyde. [http://www.strath.ac.uk/archives/specialcollections/]