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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Roman Camp | Roman Camp Roman Camp Roman Camp Roman Camp Roman Camp Roman Camp |
Chalmers Caledonia Revd [Reverend] Charles Buchan D.D. [Doctor of Divinity] Mr Charles Brand Fordoun Ho [House] Mr John Garland (Cairnton) Andrew Officer (Auchinblae) Mr James Annandale (Monboddo Ho [House]) |
020.06 | 1 "North east from Wardikes about twelve miles, there was placed a Roman Station at Fordoun, which was of greater extent than its remains seem to evince (2). It was Commodiously placed on the rise of the valley, that is known by the appropriate name of the How of the Mearns, which it protected, with the Country, Southward, to the North Esk, and Eastward, to the Sea." (Chalmer's Caledonia Vol 2- P. 177) [volume 2 Page 177] (2 "Near to the Mansion house of Fordoun, and above about a mile, South South East, of the Church of Fordon there was an extensive Roman Camp, the ramparts and ditches of which remained pretty Complete, till about fifty years ago, since that time a great part of them have been levelled and the ground brought into Cultivation. Parts however of two of then still remain, these vestiges run (Over) [continued on page 144] |
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[Page] 143Parish of Fordoun
[In Place entry column] Y.2848
5 pages copied for Mr Charles Mollyson,
22 Carden Place, Aberdeen
on 3.10.94 [3 October 1894]
[Signed] J. Stirton
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