Mylnefield

NO33SW 24 centred 3392 3039.

(NO 3392 3039) What may be the typically rounded angle of a Roman rampart appears on an air photograph, taken in December 1949, on the W side of the lane from Bullion-field filling station to Mylnefield farm and about 500' from the Dundee - Perth road. Mechan suggests that this may be the camp 600' square described by Maitland as lying 2 miles W of Dundee and 1/2 mile N of the Tay, and having triple ramparts and ditches on the S (see NO33SE 46).

"If the two arms of the angle are produced to form the sides of a square 600' x 600' with its axis NNE-SSW, then the S corner will lie approximately on the crest of the high ground N of Kingoodie (NO 338 293). It may be significant that the lane referred to passes through two sides of the square at approximately their mid-points, where gaps for entrances would be expected, and that a slight change of direction, for no apparent reason, occurs at one of these points. This would have been an ideal site for a Roman fort, with natural portection by the Tay on the S and the Invergowrie Burn on the E and N, good drainage, a nearby water supply, and sufficient elevation above the marshy land of the carse to afford a view of the estuary and approaching ships.

Until excavation or chance discovery proves the matter one way or the other, this seems the most likely candidate for the site."

After discussion covering Crawford's arguments among others, Mechan concludes that Maitland's camp "Catermilly" lay on the lands of Bullion (NO 344 306).

G W H Mechan 1966; W Maitland 1757; O G S Crawford 1949.

No trace exists on the ground.

Visited by OS(SFS) 30 April 1975.