OSMap: LR73
Type: 2 Marching Camps
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NGRef: NT2839 OSMap: LR73 Type: 2 Marching Camps |
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none proven - but see below | |
| N.G.REF | DIMENSIONS | AREA | DESCRIPTION |
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| Eshiels Camp 1 | |||
| NT281395 | (280 x 236 m) | (6.6 ha) | Discovered on aerial photographs in the early-1960's this camp lies within the larger Camp #2, sharing its western side. |
| Eshiels Camp 2 | |||
| NT281395 | (c.350 x 320 m) | (c.11.2 ha) | There are indications on A.P.'s that this camp may have Stracathro-like gateways, which, if proven, would date the founding of the site to the campaigns of Gnaeus Julius Agricola c.80/81AD. The smaller camp #2 lies wholly within this camp, sharing part of its west side. |
There is another camp a few miles to the south-east at Innerleithen, and the multi-period settlement and military complex at Easter Happrew lies about 6 miles to the west along the valley of the Lyne Water past modern Peebles, all these sites lying along the line of a postulated but unproven Roman road through the Moorfoot and Pentland Hills from the major military base at Newstead/Trimontium.
