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| Peel of Gartfarran (Continued) | [continued from page 35] it is at the western extremity of Flanders Moss - the outer and inner ramparts are still quite discernable, as also the Fosse surrounding it, with the opening through which it might be filled from the rivulet which runs near. New Stat. [Statistical] Account. Another ancient stronghold, called the Peel of Carfarran "Castle of Vexation", and evidently a Roman Castellum, presents itself, in the utmost possible state of preservation, on the north bank of a small rivulet on the north east side of the Parish of Drymen, called the Burn of the Ward. This military work is nearly square, and measures, within the trenches, towards 50 paces either way. It has two ramparts and one ditch, which, with the ramparts, measures 20 paces across. The circumference of the work is 320 paces. It is about a mile from the hill of Gartmore, which is conceived to be a corruption of the Celtic Caer-Mor, or Great Fort. From the great line of Roman Road which passes through Stirlingshire from south to north, a branch it would seem, struck off near Stirling, and, crossing the Forth stretched to Flanders hill in Perthshire. Recrossing the Forth, it probably penetrated to Carfarran in Stirlingshire. Some vestiges of it are noticed by the Statists of the parishes through which it seems to have run. In the Moss of Kincardin a Roman way was discovered 12 feet broad, & formed by trees laid across each other, & in Moss Flanders, another running from southeast to northwest. Nimmo's History of Stirlingshire |
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[Page] 36Parish of Drymen -- County of Stirling
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