Roman Camp Round - NW of Cleghorn Mill

[S. Marcer]

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-archeolo...urce=pubv1 )

Does someone has more information of this finding?
Thanks in advance


S.M.

[Nathan Ross]

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? ;-)

[mcbishop]

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.

Does someone has more information of this finding?

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).

Mike Bishop

*Jones, R. H. 2011: Roman Camps in Scotland, Edinburgh ISBN 978-0903903509

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

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'......

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Wasn't the Celtic hillfort called an "Oppidum," thinking of Round forts?

[S. Marcer]

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!

[mcbishop]

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