ARDOCH, a parish in Perthshire, famous for its Roman military antiquities, which are situated in the grounds of Ardoch House, about 2 J miles N. of Greenloaning, on the Caledonian Railway. They consist of—(1), a strong fort or station, surrounded by a series of ramparts and ditches; (2), vestiges of an intrenched outwork of considerable extent at the north side of this station; and (3), traces of two camps, still further to the north, capable, according to General Roy, of containing.28,800 and 14,000 men respectively. the smaller camp being partly included within the limits of the larger. See Gordon’s Itiner. Septent., p. 41; Pennant’s Tour, iii. 102; Roy’s Military Antiquities, pp. 62, 226; Stuart’s Caledonia Pomana, pp. 187-194.
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