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Lindum Continued ... courage and beating off their enemy to such a degree, that, had not the woods and marshes served for shelter to the fugitives, the war had been concluded by this visctory. We therefore fix upon Blair-in-roan as the place of the decisive battle between Galgacus and Agricola at this time. Of this we have presumptive evidence - the name itself, as signifying the spotted battle field - a stream which runs through the glen, and is one of the sources of the Machony, named Bai-na-blair, signifying the stream of the battle field - besides the several upright stones in that quarter, still called by the country people the Roman Stones - an in addition to all this, the discovery a few years ago, of a very large urn filled with the ashes of the dead and near by it, several stone coffins, covered over with a heap of stones or a cairn. The other Camp or Station of the Romans was at Strageath, upon the banks of the Earn, near Innerpeffary. Its original work appears to have been of small dimensions, and the intended additions to it, seem never to have been fully executed. All its entrenchments are now levelled by the plough.
New Statistical Account

The Station Lindum is in nearly the same state at present as is represented in the New Statistical Account. The place where the Stone Coffin containing a skeleton seven feet long, about a mile west from the camps, cannot be pointed out. All known places where Urns and Stone Coffins have been found are marked on the traces, with the requisite note.

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Parish of Ardoch

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