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[Notes:
"Some think the Station or Camp of the Ninth legion was where the town of Falkland
now Stands. Ptolomy mentioneth Arrea in Vennicontibus, whom the learned Gordon
of Straloch makes the ancient inhabitants of this Shire: but the name
Arrea Seemeth to point at the loch and water of Or, in the middle of this shire.
It is certain that at the end of that Loch, about an old Chapel, there are trenches
to be seen yet." Sibbald's Fife & Kinross page 31

Of the existence of a Roman Camp at Lochore, on the northwest, there Cannot be a doubt. The proprietor of Lochore
having cut drains under the Camp found several Roman Antiquities. Chalmers Caledonia Page 168.

"The Horestii having watched the proceedings of the Roman Army made the necessary preparations for attack, and during
the night delivered a furious assault on the Roman entrenchments at Loch Ore". Brown's History of the Highlands page 20 published 1849.

"No Vestige remains of the Roman Camp Said to have
been in this parish. Near its Site is now the Steading of the Chapel Farm." New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]

"It has been conjectured, with much probability, that this was the Spot where the Ninth Legion was attacked, and nearly cut off,
by the Caledonians, as we have it narrated by Tacitus, in his life of Agricola.The present proprietor of Lochore, in prosecuting the plan of clearing
the Loch, having occasion to cut some ditches immediately under the Camp, the workmen have dug up several antiquities which are evidently
Roman particularly the head of a Roman Spear. Just by the Camp is a Village called Blair, which in the Original, is Said Signify locus
Ragnae, or a place where a battle has been fought." Old Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]