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Publication Account
Date 17 December 2011
Event ID 924765
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/924765
Melville observed the nearby moat at Fordoun, claiming that it was a ‘Roman Castellum’ (Macdonald 1939: 249), and the Rev. Alexander Leslie, writer of the old Statistical Account, described the area as a Roman camp (Sinclair 1792: iv, 498). Knox drew a camp with six gates protected by tituli on his Map of the Basin of Tay (1850), and, later, Crawford, drawing on the antiquarian accounts, was keen on the area as a possible site for a camp (1949: 103–4). Recent air photographs reveal a number of linear cropmarks in the area, but none gives any clear suggestion of R oman origin. However, the Luther Water has clearly been canalised since Knox’s map, and just west of Fordoun House there is a rounded corner with straight sides, resembling a camp, although its classification cannot currently be proven.
R H Jones.