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Publication Account
Date 17 December 2011
Event ID 923513
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/923513
This camp was first discovered from the air by St Joseph in 1952 (St Joseph 1955: 87), lying on an area of flat ground east of the River Tay and now occupied by Perth Hunt Race Course. The camp of Grassy Walls lies about 300m to the north and the Roman fort of Bertha is situated across the Tay. Parts of three sides have been visible through cropmarks, and the camp measures at least 540m from WNW to ESE by 401m transversely, enclosing a minimum of 21.6ha (53 acres), and possibly some 25ha (63 acres). An entrance gap protected by a titulus is visible in the NNE side, and St Joseph recorded another in the SSW side (1969: 111), but this could not be identified from air photographs.
St Joseph placed a series of trenches through the SSW and NNE sides in 1968 and 1969, recording that the ditch was some 2.4m in width and about 1m in depth (RCAHMS St Joseph Collection: Notebook 5).
R H Jones.
