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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Buzzart Dikes Continued | [continued from page 7] dike skirts along the south side of Lornty Burn to near the Millhole, where it crosses the said burn for a few feet from this point it is lost in consequence of cultivation, but still is (from the nature of the ground) traceable till it meets the stream on the north side. "The Buzzart Dikes on Garrydrums, in the parish of Kinloch being earthen dikes of 8 or 10 feet high, inclosing great part of a square mile, we take to be the place of Mount Grampius where the Britons had already sat down "quem jam hostes insederant", and which contained the "laeta praeda victoribus". This place is near the tumuli, and the appearances of the field of Action, and it is 4 miles north from the Roman camp at Meiklour." Old Stat [Statistical] Account for Bendoch Ph. [Parish] 9 p [page] 368. |
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| CALEDONIAN CAMP [Buzzart Dykes] | Caledonian Camp Caledonian Camp Caledonian Camp Caledonian Camp |
Mr. Soutar Blairgowrie Perthshire Constitutional Old Stat [Statistical] Account 9-369 Knoxe's Map of the Basin of the Tay |
052 | "The Garrydrums, on which the Caledonian Camp of Buzzart Dikes lies, are very singular ground and are mentioned by Tacitus in the following words: "Britanni, qui adhuc pugnae expertes summa collium insederant, degredi paulatim et circumire terga vincentium coeperant". The Here Cairns of Gormak, below, and immediately contiguous, lying close together, about 80 in number, and about 15 feet each by [continued on page 9] |
Continued entries/extra info
[Page] 8[Note below Caledonian Camp:]
- OMO [Ordnance Mapping Office] 28 August 1866 - Cap: [Captain] Courtney R.E. [Royal Engineers] gives the site of the Battle to be at Raedykes on
12/6 of Fetteresso Kincardineshire - the whole referred by Cap [Captain] Parsons to Colonel Cameron -
- and the site of the Battle is not to appear on any plan. [Initialled] AMcD -28 Augt 66 [August 1866]
Transcribers who have contributed to this page.
Alison James- Moderator, Invicta2, Derek Wilson Hall
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