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Camp description continued:-

the ground the whole formation appears to have been a complete rectangle of about 1460 by 950 feet. See correspondence and remarks thereon.

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"is about one and thirty miles from from Burrenswark hill. And it is more than probable, that this was the site of Gadonica, in the ninth Iter, the Colanica of Richard's map, and the Colania of Ptolonny a town of the Damnii, which both concur, in placing on the south-eastern corner of their extensive territories. From this post which corresponds exactly with the Damnian town, on Little Clyde the Iter must have proceeded in a north-east direction, along the south-east side of Clydesdale to the remarkable burn, which the Clyde make opposite to Biggar, from this position, it woulf naturally proceed, in a northerly course along the eastern side of the river to Caer-stairs, the Coria of the Iter, another town of the Damnii which is four and twenty miles, from the Colania, on Little Clyde. At this place is the Roman Station of Castle-dykes" (Chalmers Caledonia, Vol. 1. P. 121)
"A small Castellum is said, indeed to have formerly stood at a place called Little Clyde, very near the source of that river." (Caledonia Romana, P. 235.)
"The temporary camps, like the permanent stations of the Romans are in general to be met with in the neighbourhood of their military ways. When not called upon to follow an enemy into the depths of the forests, the march of the legions was always, of course along the beaten track, and their encampments were formed at as small a distance