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| Camp | Continued | [continued from page 33] the Danish Camp. Large remains of the entrenchments have been preserved. It is upon the old E. [East] bank of the Spey, and the river had then flowed at the bottom, which had occasioned the choice of the post. This camp may have been connected with the battle between the Scots and Danes, in the neighbourhood of Cullen. From the square figure of the encampment, it should rather seem to have been a Roman camp, though it be difficult to say when the Romans were here, unless Agricola might land a detachment in his traverse on the coasts of Scotland". Old Statistical Account XIV, 1795, 271. "The remains of the Roman encampment, says Colonol Imrie, who examined it, in January 1799, is situated about half a mile north-east of the ruins of the Kirk of Bellie, on a bank, overlooking the low fluviated ground of the river. It is upon a flat surface, and has been in form nearly a rectangular parallelogram of 888 feet by 333; but, the west side, and the greater part of the north end, of the parallelogram are now wanting. I say nearly a rectangular parallelogram, as a small, though perceptible deviation from the straight line, exists in the vallum, and ditch, of its eastern side. As deviations of this kind are not frequently found, in Roman field fortifications, where there is no obvious necessity, the deviation may be considered as an objection to the camp at Bellie, when it is said to be a Roman remain; but from having examined with much attention, the remaining [continued on page 34] |
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[Page] 33Co. [County] of Banff -- Parish of Bellie
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