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Date 1983

Event ID 1154204

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1154204

Battledykes, Keithock, Temporary Camp NO 610 639 NO66SW 1

This temporary camp, which has been associated with the campaigns of the emperor Septimus Severus (c. AD 208-11 ), occupies gently sloping ground on the right bank of the Cruick Water immediately N of East Mains of Keithock farmhouse. Roughly trapezoidal on plan, it measures about 625m from NW to SE by 410m transversely, enclosing an area of some 25ha, and a small rectangular annexe about 1.1 ha in area is attached to the NW side. Titula have been identified at four of the camp's six gates.

RCAHMS 1983.

(Roy 1793, 67; St Joseph 1.969, 116-18).

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