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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 692596
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/692596
NO77NW 9 732 770.
There was an extensive Roman camp near the mansion of Fordoun (Fordoun House: NO 732 770). There are still traces of the NW angle and the N and W sides. The Luther Water used to run through the W side and there are several springs on the E side of the camp.
It is known locally as the 'West Camp': to the E there is a 'very complete Roman fort' (Medieval moat - NO77NW 4), supposed to have been the praetorium of the camp.
G Chalmers 1801.
The camp had been defended by triangular forts, at the different corners, by outposts, and by a deep morass 'at the lower extremity'.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.
Crawford believed that a very strong case had been made out for a marching camp, probably of two phases and over-lapping (which would account for the 'triangular forts,' etc.) although he found nothing to substantiate this theory by ground inspection or local enquiry in 1939.
O G S Crawford 1949.
No trace was found by ground inspection or by local enquiry.
Visited by OS (R L) 5 December 1967.
