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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| THE GREAT CAMP [Ardoch] | The Great Camp The Great Camp The Great Camp |
Mr William McNicol, Gunnocks Braco. Shearer's Antiquities of Strathearn New Statistical Account |
117 | "To the nort-west of the procestrium is the great camp, which is oblong but not altogether a parallelogram, from which we see the Romans, at this period, occasionally yielded to the ground; the longest sides, however, being only a little deflected, would not hinder the regular distribution of the troops. The public road enters by the South gate, and in so doing has cut down one half of the esscalment which covered it - the other half remains to this day. The north gate is a little to the east of the egress of the highway, covered by a straight traverse, and another gate on the west side is similarly protected. Part of this entrenchment on the south end of the east side has been ploughed down; but the north gate on that side is defended not only by a square Redoubt with the lines, but also by a clavicle; from which it may be inferred that a weak legion was quartered in that part of the camp. There are two or three small ponds on the entrenchments, and the whole ground would not now be considered favourable for the encampment of an army, being rather of a moressy nature; but in the first century it might have been in a very different state. The mean length of the great camp is 2800 and its mean breadth 1950 feet; according to the polybean system it would hold between 25,000 and 26,000 men - General Roy says it is very probable that it was here Agricola encamped with his army, before dividing it into three bodies, as above mentions; and also in the following year, before marching against Galgacus" Shearer's Antiquities of Strathearn. With a few exceptions this Camp is now entirely destroyed, the only portion existing is on the east side where the lampart is in a very good state of preservation there is, however, several places where its lines can be distinctly traced |
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