Eshiels Temporary Camps
Marching or Temporary Camp
Two overbuilt camps at this location/
Eshiels Camp 1
OS National Grid Reference: NT281395
Dimensions: 920 x 775 ft (280 x 236 m)
Area: 16¼ acres (6.6 ha)
Description: Discovered on aerial photographs in the early-1960’s this camp lies within the larger Camp #2, sharing its western side.
Eshiels Camp 2
OS National Grid Reference: NT281395
Dimensions: c.1,150 x 1,050 ft (c.350 x 320 m)
Area: c.27¾ acres (c.11.2 ha)
Description: There are indications on A.P.’s that this camp may have Stracathro-like gateways, which, if proven, would date the founding of the site to the campaigns of Agricola c.80/81 AD . The smaller camp #2 lies wholly within this camp, sharing part of its west side.
There is another camp a few miles to the south-east at Innerleithen, and the multi-period settlement and military complex at Easter Happrew lies about 6 miles to the west along the valley of the Lyne Water past modern Peebles, all these sites lying along the line of a postulated but unproven Roman road through the Moorfoot and Pentland Hills from the major military base at Newstead/Trimontium.
References for Eshiels Camps
- Air Reconnaissance in Britain, 1961-64 by J.K. St. Joseph in J.R.S. lv (1965) pp.78/9; Britannia xxvii (1996) p.405.
Map References for Eshiels Camps
NGRef: NT2839 OSMap: LR73
Roman Roads near Eshiels Camps
None identified
Sites near Eshiels Temporary Camps
- Innerleithen Temporary Camp (6 km)
Marching or Temporary Camp - Lyne Temporary Camp 2 (8 km)
Marching or Temporary Camp - Lyne Temporary Camp 1 (8 km)
Marching or Temporary Camp - Easter Happrew Roman Fort (9 km)
Flavian Auxiliary Fort (AD 69–96) and Vicus - Lyne Roman Fort (9 km)
Antonine Wall Fortlet and Marching or Temporary Camp - Kaimhouse Lodge Temporary Camp (15 km)
Marching or Temporary Camp - Castlecraig Camps (16 km)
Marching or Temporary Camp - Kirkhouse Marching Camp (19 km)
Marching or Temporary Camp - North Slipperfield Marching Camp (20 km)
Marching or Temporary Camp - Oakwood Temporary Camp (20 km)