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Note
Date 14 December 1992
Event ID 1106857
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1106857
This temporary camp is situated on the left bank of the River Tay, immediately S of its confluence with the Gelly Burn and about 1.1km NNW of Scone Palace.
The camp presents a markedly irregular quadrilateral on plan, the result of difficulties imposed by the awkwardly-contoured high ground S of the Gelly Burn; its axial dimensions are approximately 670m by 760m and it occupies an area of about 52ha. The positions of two of the camp's six gates have been identified; at both there is a marked re-entrant angle and an external traverse has been recorded. Sectors of the enclosing rampart and ditch on the N, W and E sides can still be traced in Drumshogle Wood near the NW angle and on either side of the NE angle; where best preserved, the remains appear as a low grassy bank which measures up to 6m in thickness and stands up to 0.6m above the bottom of an external ditch about 3m wide.
The area of the camp indicates beyond doubt that it belongs to the series of large camps accommodating the entire field-army of the emperor Septimius Severus in the campaigns of AD 208-11.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS) 14 December 1992.
