Temporary Marching Camp

Kirkhouse, Dolphinton, Strathclyde

NGRef: NT0946
OSMap: LR72
Type: Marching Camp
Roads
NE (9) to Carlops (Lothian), via Slipperfield
SW (8½) to Cornhill (Coulter, Strathclyde)
N.G.REFDIMENSIONSAREADESCRIPTION
NT0974621,430 x 1,180 ft
(435 x 360 m)		38¾ acres
(15.7 ha)		This camp, discovered from the air in 1983, underlies the Roman road from Biggar to the Forth and thus probably predated it. In size this camp is similar to that at Carlops, which lies about a day's march to the north-east.
See: Britannia xv (1984) p.276;
Britannia xvii (1985) p.371;
Air Reconnaissance in Roman Britain 1977-1984 by G.S. Maxwell & D.R. Wilson in Britannia xviii (1987) p.33.

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