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Publication Account
Date 17 December 2011
Event ID 923957
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/923957
This camp is situated on fairly level ground less than 500m west of the Roman fort at Strageath. It was first recorded as a cropmark from the air in 1969 by Cambridge University, and confirmed through further aerial survey by RCAHMS and excavations by St Joseph (Maxwell 1981: 41). However, a Roman camp is clearly marked in this location to the west of Strageath fort and annexes, with four tituli, on Knox’s Map of the Basin of the Tay in 1850. In addition, Maitland refers to a large camp occupying upwards of 30 acres at Strageath (1757: 196), and this could also be this camp.
The camp measures about 470m from WNW to ESE by 292m, enclosing about 13.7ha (34 acres). No obvious entrances are known. Excavations by St Joseph in 1979 recorded that the ditch on the south side was V-shaped, measuring about 1.3m in width and 0.6m in depth
(RCAHMS St Joseph Collection: Notebook 8).
R H Jones.
