OSMap: LR80
Type: 3 Marching Camps
The Birdhope Marching Camps
viewed from the High Rochester fort
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NGRef: NY8298 OSMap: LR80 Type: 3 Marching Camps |
The Birdhope Marching Camps viewed from the High Rochester fort |
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See BREMENIVM (High Rochester, Northumberland) | |
| N.G.REF | DIMENSIONS | AREA | DESCRIPTION |
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| Birdhope 1, Northumberland | |||
| NY826988 | (c.235 x c.365 m) | (12.3 ha) | these camps lie some (450m) WNW of the Bremenium (High Rochester) fort, Dere Street lies close beside the E defences of this large camp which has a perimeter shaped like a parallelogram, and the Sills Burn flows to the S beyond the road, most of the perimeter has been plotted, and what cannot be recorded may easily be inferred, only one gateway has been identified in the W side slightly displaced to the N and protected by an internal clavicula, Camps-2 & 3 lie wholly within the NE part of this camp, several Bell-pits and a number of Roman mausolea lie within and outside the SE corner of the camp. |
| Birdhope 2, Northumberland | |||
| NY826988 | (c.170 x c.185 m) | (3.1 ha) | this almost rectangular camp lies wholly within the NE corner of Camp-1 but does not utilize any of the larger camps defences, Camp-3 lies within this camp, 4 gates are visible all protected by external tituli, and set centrally in each side, those to E & W being displaced slightly to the N and the S gate slightly to the E, it s possible that the camp faced N, the defences of this camp are quite substantial, and it is possible that occupation here was somewhat more than temporary. |
| Birdhope 3, Northumberland | |||
| NY826988 | (c.110+ x c.150 m) | (2.1 ha) | this camp lies within the defences of Camp-2, only 110m of the W and S sides and the SW corner angle have been recorded, but it seems probable that the camp measured some (150m) N-S. |
There are two more camps nearby at Sills Burn and another at Bellshiel.
