Temporary Marching Camp

Strageath, Tayside

NGRef: NN8918
OSMap: LR58
Type: Marching Camp
Roads
See Strageath (Tayside)
N.G.REFDIMENSIONSAREADESCRIPTION
NN891181c.1,540 x 950 ft
(c.470 x 290 m)		c.33½3 acres
(c.25.5 ha?)		This camp lies 1,550 feet from the fort at Strageath, on the opposite (?) bank of the River Earn. The east side of the camp has not yet been firmly established but crop-marks seem to indicate that it may have lay about 1,540 ft (470 m) from the west side.

There is another temporary camp nearby at Dornock (NN8719), and two more at Innerpeffray (NN9118).

See: Air Reconnaissance of Roman Scotland 1939-75 by J.K. St. Joseph in G.A.J. iv (1976);
Air Reconnaissance in Roman Britain 1977-1984 by G.S. Maxwell & D.R. Wilson in Britannia xviii (1987)pp.35/6.

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