Ardoch

NN80NW 32 8425 0999

ROMAN CAMP

(site of) [R]

OS 1:10,000 map, [1982].

Location formerly entered as Centred NN 8425 1000.

Extends onto map sheet NN81SW.

For other elements of Ardoch, Roman Military Complex , see:

NN80NW 10 NN 8390 0990 Fort

NN81SW 7 NN 8452 1075 Watch Tower (Scheduled as Signal Station)

NN81SW 15 NN 8390 1090 Temporary Camp ('63 acre')

NN81SW 16 NN 8370 1060 Temporary Camp ('30 acre')

NN81SW 17 NN 8380 1050 Temporary Camp ('13 acre': within NN81SW 16)

NN81SW 18 NN 8420 1080 Temporary Camp ('120 acre')

NN81SW 19 NN 8404 1022 Temporary Camp (Scheduled as Annexe to Fort NN80NW 10)

NN81SW 40 Camelon - Ardoch - Strageath - Cargilll Roman road (RR 9a) [Scheduled length from NN 8425 1034 to NN 8486 1127].

Three sides of a parallelogram enclosure some 3.7 acres in area, have been traced as crop marks, though these rarely appear as that particular field is seldom ploughed. A broad mark which indicates a ditch is matched by a narrow inner line representing a second small ditch, or a palisade trench. The nature of the work can only be determined by digging. The suggestion that this might be a labour camp for a construction party working on one of the forts remains an interesting conjecture.

J K St Joseph 1976.

Excavated and re-classified as Roman Fort, about 3 acres in area.

Information contained in letter from J K St Joseph to OS 12 October 1977.

Scheduled within 'Ardoch, Roman military complex 900m NNE of Ardoch Bridge...': 'Visible as a cropmark, an earlier 3.7-acre fort is located to the east of the annexe' [Roman Temporary Camp: NN81SW 19].

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 26 March 2008.