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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castlescary Fort | Roman Fort Roman Fort Roman Fort Castle Cary or Curia Damniorum |
Revd [Reverend] William Begg Mr. Alexander Black Mr. John Beeby Colonel Roy's Military Antiquities of Scotland |
029.07 | The following account of this Fort appears in Nimmo's History of Stirlingshire. Dated 1817. "The first monuments, concerning the antiquity and original design of which we can attain to any degree of certainty, are the ruins of the proesidia, or forts, built, about eighty years after the birth of Jesus Christ, by Julius Agricola, who was the first that led a Roman army into these northern parts, Tacitus, in his life of that General, informs us, that, in his fourth campaign, he erected forts upon the narrow isthmus between the firths of Glota and Bodotria, that is, Clyde and Forth, with an intention to secure his conquests upon the south, and to confine the natives of the country as within another island. These forts appear to have been erected in the same tract where Lollius Urbicus afterwards raised the wall, which now goes by the name of Graham's Dyke. No vestiges of such works are to be seen in any other part of the isthmus; and, that those fabrics we are going to mention, were built in a more early period than the wall, is highly probable from the following circumstance: that the wall does not always run in a straight course, but often fetches a compass, and leaves more advantageous ground, with no other apparent view than that of coming up to some of them." "The ruins of these proesidia are still, for the most part, visible alongst the track of the wall, and generally at the distance of two miles from each other. Little more, indeed, remains at present to distinguish the spots, where even the largest of them stood, than the vestiges of the outer ditches and ramparts, appearing amidst confused heaps [continued on page 54] |
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