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Note
Date 14 December 1992
Event ID 1106903
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1106903
This Roman marching-camp whose existence was revealed by cropmarks detected from the air, lies on the level haughs of Scone Park on the left bank of the River Tay, about 400m S of the Roman temporary camp at Grassy Walls (NO12NW 8). A predominantly clay subsoil has restricted the amount of information to be gleaned from further aerial survey, the more so because most of the camp lies within the grounds of Perth Hunt Race Course (NO12NW 9.16). Trial excavation, however, has helped to confirm the whole of the camp's NW side and parts of the long NE and SW sides, demonstrating that the axial dimensions are about 395m by at least 600m. The position of three gates (each probably guarded by a traverse) has so far been identified, one in each of the long sides. The area occupied by the camp (at least 23.7 ha) and the relationship of the known gates to each other makes it evident that this was one of a series of bivouacs used by part of the army of the emperor Septimius Severus in AD 208-11.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS) 14 December 1992.
J K St Joseph 1955; J K St Joseph 1969; J K St Joseph 1970.
