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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 691380
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/691380
NO88NE 7 8681 8651.
The evidence for the siting of this 'camp' seems to derive ultimately from Barclay's sketch-map of 1785 on which it is shown as a square with rounded corners, although it is mentioned as early as 1722 in Camden's Britannia. The Name Book authorities remember the site being called 'The Camp' a bout 1800 but the ground was already under cultivation and no remains were evident.
Crawford thought the site too narrow for a Roman camp, or even a normal-sized Roman fort and suggested that it was probably a native fort.
R Barclay 1792; O G S Crawford 1949; Name Book 1865; W Camden 1722.
The site of a 'camp' noted in the late 18th century on Fetteresso glebe, is now occupied by a housing estate.
R Barclay 1792; O G S Crawford 1949; RCAHMS 1984.
Listed.
Scottish Castle Survey 1988; N Bogdan and I B D Bryce 1991.
