Publication Account
Date 1996
Event ID 1016493
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1016493
This, the best preserved Roman earthwork in Grampian, is irregular in plan in order to make best use of the terrain. Much of the circuit of rampart and ditch, which encloses 37 ha, can st ill be seen in good condition on the eastern, seaward slopes of Garrison Hill. The temporary, or 'marching' camp was probably built in AD 83 or 84 during the brief campaign conducted by Gnaeus Julius Agricola, governor of the Roman province of Britain, against the Caledonians, which culminated in the battle of Mons Graupius.
A large earth and stone bank, 180m long and up to 4.5m thick and 1.2m high, with a ditch, lies in woodland 230m S of the camp (at NO 843896) and parallel to the rampart. It may have acted as a defensive outwork.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Aberdeen and North-East Scotland’, (1996).
