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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 683817
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/683817
NO14NW 2 centred 1268 4766
(No 127 476) Caledonian Camp (NR) (Supposed Site of) Buzzart Dikes (NR) OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed. (1901)
For 'small cairns' apparently traditionally associated with this monument, see NO14SE 49.
The name appears to have originated on the authority of Playfair, who together with McRitchie and Brodie, connects it with the Battle of Mons Graupius.
Staistical Account (OSA, J Playfair) 1797; OSA (McRitchie) 1793; OSA (Brodie) 1796
The earthwork, Buzzard Dikes, encloses an irregular oblong area just under a mile long on the S, and c.1740 yds on the N, by c.650 yds along its western margin and 470 yds on the eastern. The work is best preserved at its western end where it runs SSW across the ridges and hollows.
V G Childe and A Graham 1943
There is no relation between the earthwork and the hut circles and cairns in the vicinity.
V G Childe and A Graham 1943
It bears no resemblance to any known defensive work, Roman or native, and has the ditch on the inside of the bank. Crawford is convinced therefore, that the work is an animal enclosure, probably medieval, and possibly late at that.
O G S Crawford 1949
The earthwork known as 'Buzzart Dikes' encloses an area of about 86 ha on Middleton Muir. Although identified by antiquarians as a Caledonian camp and associated with the battle of Mons Graupius, it has been convincingly interpreted as the remains of a medieval deer park.
O G S Crawford 1949
Buzzart Dikes, a probable medieval park pale, as described above. It is best preserved in the W. Part surveyed at 1:10,000 and part at 1:2500.
Visited by OS(JM) 16 January 1975
