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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Caledonian Camp Continued | [continued from page 8] by 5 in height, mark the contest that followed" Old Stat [Statistical] Account for Bendochy Ph. [Parish] "Not far from Blairgowrie is a vast rectangular inclosure, encompassed with a lofty rampart and a deep ditch; the length is an English Mile & a quarter; the breadth half of a mile. Three rising grounds run parallel to each other the whole length of it. Two rivulets and Lornty Water take likewise parallel courses at the bottoms between these risings. In certain parts within are multitudes of tumuli. The same are observed in greater numbers on the south exterior sides, and some on the east. With them are mixed several circular buildings, with an entrance on one part. Of these little more than the foundations are left, which are 6 feet thick. Some include an area of 48 feet; but the greater number only 27. The ditch is on the inside; by which this inclosure appears to have been designed for a different purpose than a Camp. It probably was an oppidum of the ancient inhabitants of the country: the circular foundations, the reliques of their habitations, which, when entire, might have been of the form of the Danish Dunes, so frequent in the Hebrides; as the tumuli are certainly the places of interment." Pennant's Tour of 1772 p. [page] 458-9. Besides the Haer Cairns of Gormack, great numbers are to be found elsewhere in the neighbourhood of the Camp, also some circles, the construction of which varies, one class composed with a vallum of earth and stone, the others composed with large boulders or slabs placed edgeways & at equal distances for what use they were is not known in the locality probably a kind of Picts houses. |
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