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STATION (Site of) [Castlehill] Site of Fort
Site of Fort
Site of Fort
Site of Fort
Revd. [Reverend] Dr. [Doctor] Sym, Minister of New Kilpatrick
Mr Walter Alexander Castlehill
Mr. James Main Windyhill
Caledonia Romana
023 "The Castlehill - its circular top crowned with that chaplet of trees whose slender stems have usurped the place of the ancient Valla, & whose lengthening shadows stretch over the withered sward - still as the 'ghostly memories' of departed time. Leaving the little ravine at "Peel" (Glen)" a short ascent conducts the visitor to the summit, where, having made his way through this sylvan belt, he finds himself within a circular area, perfectly free of wood, excepting towards the centre, where one solitary tree rises before him, as if it had stept forth among the ranks of its surrounding comrades, and now took its turn of duty as warder of the ground - This narrow plantation incloses the site of the Roman Fort, of which not a vestige remains, unless the more fervent antiquary may be able to distinguish some traces of the ramparts in certain inequalities of the surface, which are slightly perceptible at one or two places. The Fort at Castlehill was, in size & strength, one of the least important along the whole line and may properly be placed in the third or lowest class. Its situation was, however, a very commanding one, & may account for the comparatively trivial nature of the defences. When Genl. [General] Roy visited this station he seems to have found its remains exceedingly indistinct; but he observed enough to shew that its area had been protected by a single Vallum & ditch, & that a branch, at least, of the Military Way" (See N. [Name] Sheet of M [Military] Way) "had passed directly through it. Its distance from the Station at Duntocher is 3450 yards or rather less than two English miles; and the space inclosed by the ramparts measured about 300 by 200 feet." Caledonia Romana. 302.
The description given above of the site of this
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STATION (Site of) [New Kilpatrick] 023 [See entry for Station (Site of) Castlehill above.]

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