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| Lindum | Continued | ... Grampium, as others are, to fix upon the neighbourhood of Loch Orr, in fife, Blairgowrie, or Battle Dykes, north of Forar or Reithie, near Brechin. We consider the camps at Ardoch and the other places of that nature, connected with them, to have been the abodes of the Romans, in the year 82, when they came to invade the inhospitable regions of the north. The whole space which was occupied by the Romans in their encampment, at Ardoch, consists of four departments, viz. the Station, the procestium, the great Camp, and the less. The station is a freeman out Camp situated upon an eminence close by the public road from Stirling to Crieff. The position was happily chosen for defence; on all sides the camp was protected; on the west by a defence from the banks of the Knaik rising fifty feet above the surface of the water, and having two fossae between it and the bank; on the south, by a deep morass that rose a considerable way eastward, with its two fossae also; and on the east and north, by deep entrenchments of five ditches, and six ramparts parallel to the Station; all of which were very sufficient to guard those within, and to keep off besiegers. The area of the station within the entrenchments may still be seen, and is of an oblong form, 420 feet by 375, with its four sides nearly facing the cardinal points of the compass. The place of the Praetorium or general's quarter is a regular space of 50 feet in the side, in the rear or part farthest distant from the enemy's but is marked of rather irregularly - for on inspection, it is not found to be exactly in the middle between the gates, nor parallel with those of the Station. It is, however, elevated above the level of the ground , and appears to have been enclosed by a stone wall. Within this, also, there are the foundations of a building 30 feet by 27, which gives some probability to the conjecture that there was a place of worship once there, which is still called Chapel Hill. Of the four gates which belonged to the Roman Station three ... |
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