OS1/21/18/193
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| ROMAN CAMP [Little Clyde] | Roman Camp, Roman Dyke | G.Vere Irving Esqr. F.A.S. (Newton Ho.), Archibald Thomson (Little Clyde). | 050 | On the farm and surrounding the house of Little Clyde are the remains of what appears to have been a fortified Post or Camp. The breast work and ditch are in the best preservation at the N. west angle, the breast work at this place is about 2 ft. 6 inches high and 9 feet wide at the base, and the ditch about 8 ft. wide and 12 inches deep, they are also in good preservation and easily traced along the north front at the S.E. angle, and centre of south front, they are not traceable at the centre of east side and S. west angle, but by producing lines from the angles and portions which are traceable on |
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"Proceeding thence along the west bank of the Annan, it leads to the intrenchments at Lassies-holm, which we have likewise supposed to have been a camp of Agricola, it continues along the ridge between these two rivers till it falls in with the sources of the Clyde at a place called Little Clyde, where there has been another square redoubt." (Roy P.104)"The Iter must now, in its course north-eastward, have ascended Erickstane-brae, and passing along this ridge that separates Annandale from Clydesdale, it must have fallen in with the sources of the Clyde; and descending a little lower, it must have arrived at a Roman post at Little Clyde, upon the track of the Roman road. This Roman path
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