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THE ROMAN CAMP NEAR ABERDEEN.

By G. M. FRASER. (With Ma2) and Illustrations.)

FORIVIERLY, in dealing with the construction that we call the Roman camp at Culter, it was necessary to discuss the question whether the Romans were in at all. That is not now necessary, for the excavations carried out in the summer of 1913 at the reputed Roman camp of Glenmailen near , in this county, by Dr. George Macdonald, the highest authority, we may say, on Roman remains in , and Professor Haverfield, one of the chief authorities on Roman remains in the whole country, has settled finally, not only that the Roman forces were in Aberdeenshire, but that they were here in exceptionally large numbers. These excavations at Ythan Wells were undertaken in what may he termed a legitimately sceptical mood. Popular tradition had long associated that camp, as it has long associated this camp at Culter, with the Romans, and not only so, but General Roy, the antiquary and military engineer, the first to deal in a scientific way with the Roman remains in Scotland, gave a plan of the Ythan Wells camp in his Military Antiquities of~Vorth .Brilai~, published in 1793. He Downloaded by [Simon Fraser University] at 13:33 13 November 2014 gave also a plan of camp, at Ury, near , and others in Strathmore, as well as of others in the far north up to the Roman works at Burghead on the Moray Firth. When Dr. Macdonald and Professor Haverfield undertook their excavations at Ythan Wells, with the help of a Carnegie Grant in 1913, they did so with a threefold object in view. In the first place, they wished to test, in an Aherdeenshire case, the reliability of General Roy's plan in the Military Antiquities. In the second