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Roman Camp Round - NW of Cleghorn Mill - S. Marcer - 11-26-2012
Maybe you already know this discovery...
Recently I have read the news of a roman circular camps NW of Cleghorn Mill ( South Lanarkshire, Scotland). The visible remains consist of a grass/heather bank 3.7 metres in thickness and 0.7 metres high. This is fronted by a ditch which is 1.9 metres in width and 0.4 metres in depth.
(Here another article: http://www.aprimordia.com/roman-archeology-news/roman-camps-round-cleghorn/?fb_source=pubv1 )
Does someone has more information of this finding?
Thanks in advance
S.M.
Roman Camp Round - NW of Cleghorn Mill - Nathan Ross - 11-26-2012
I can't see why you say the camp is 'circular'. The link describes it as a parallelogram, and the aerial photo appears to support this.
Are you confusing round and around, maybe? ;-)
Roman Camp Round - NW of Cleghorn Mill - mcbishop - 11-26-2012
Quote:Recently I have read the news of a roman circular camps NW of Cleghorn Mill ( South Lanarkshire, Scotland). The visible remains consist of a grass/heather bank 3.7 metres in thickness and 0.7 metres high. This is fronted by a ditch which is 1.9 metres in width and 0.4 metres in depth.The Cleghorn camps are not circular (one is a parallelogram, the other might be, but only a corner survives) and are described and illustrated in Rebecca Jones' catalogue of Scottish camps* (a beautifully produced and comparatively cheap book in an age of overly expensive so-so academic books from rip-off publishers) on pp.173 (Cleghorn I) and 328 (II).
Does someone has more information of this finding?
Mike Bishop
*Jones, R. H. 2011: Roman Camps in Scotland, Edinburgh ISBN 978-0903903509
Roman Camp Round - NW of Cleghorn Mill - Gaius Julius Caesar - 11-27-2012
It's as Nathen said, I think, the wording in the link could be interpreted as 'round' forts,
as that is what it says 8-) , when correct English would say 'around'......
Roman Camp Round - NW of Cleghorn Mill - Flavivs Aetivs - 11-27-2012
Wasn't the Celtic hillfort called an "Oppidum," thinking of Round forts?
Roman Camp Round - NW of Cleghorn Mill - S. Marcer - 11-27-2012
Nathan Ross wrote:
Are you confusing round and around, maybe?
Oops! My fault, sometimes my language barriers are quite evident :oops: .
Thank you for the corrections and the info!
Roman Camp Round - NW of Cleghorn Mill - mcbishop - 11-27-2012
Quote:Wasn't the Celtic hillfort called an "Oppidum," thinking of Round forts?Not all oppida (in the modern sense of proto-towns) were hillforts and not all hillforts were oppida (the Romans were less fussy about terminology). Blame prehistorians for any confusion (I find that usually works).
Mike Bishop