Temporary Marching Camps

Middlebie, Dumfries & Galloway

NGRef: NY2076
OSMap: LR85
Type: 2 Marching Camps
Roads
See BLATOBVLGIVM (Birrens, Dumfries & Galloway)
N.G.REFDIMENSIONSAREADESCRIPTION
Middlebie Camp 1
NY2087641,250 x 1,100+ ft
(381 x 335+ m)		>31½ acres
(>12.8 ha)		Discovered on aerial photographs by J.K. St. Joseph and first reported in 1951, this camp lies on Middlebie Hill, some ¾-mile north of the Birrens complex.
Middlebie Camp 2
NY208764? ft
(? m)		? acres
(? ha)		This small camp, reported by Prof. St. Joseph in 1973, lies wholly within the perimeter of the larger Camp #1.
See: Air Reconnaissance of North Britain by J.K. St. Joseph in J.R.S. xli (1951) p.58;
Air Reconnaissance in Britain, 1951-5 by J.K. St. Joseph in J.R.S. xlv (1955) p.85;
Air Reconnaissance in Britain, 1961-64 by J.K. St. Joseph in J.R.S. lv (1965) p.79;
Air Reconnaissance in Britain, 1969-72 by J.K. St. Joseph in J.R.S. lxiii (1973) p.217.

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