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Inchtuthill Continued Description of Inchtuthill Continued
The walls were nine and a half feet in thickness, built with stones from a quarry about two miles distant. The stones have been gradually removed, and the walls are now almost levelled with the plough. There are two Tumuli and a redoubt on the South east side of the Camp. Inchtuthel is likewise believed to have been part of the land granted by Kenneth III who ascended the throne in 997. to Hay for his bravery in rallying the Scots when they fled from the Danes at the battle of Luncarty. Hay's descendants passed it till the beginning of the seventeenth century." Dunkeld Guide Book.
Inchtuthill including the space occupied by by the Camp has been laid out as ornamental ground. The vegetable garden which once occu-pied a corner of the Roman Camp has been removed. The surface levelled, trees thinly planted and its steep sides covered with wood, South of Inchtuthil on the north bank of the River Tay, there is a triangular shaped piece of land defined by three upright stones marked D and K belonging to the proprietor of the land on the opposite side but rented by Sir A M. McKenzie and belongs to Caputh Parish

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Perthshire -- Parish of Caputh

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