Dunipace Marching Camp

Marching or Temporary Camp

Dunipace Camp was discovered from the air in 1983 on the north bank of the Carron just north-east of the Hills of Dunipace. The ditch was sectioned in 1987 and was found to vary considerably between 6½ to 14¾ ft. wide by a maximum of about 5 ft. deep (c.2-4.5 x 1.5 m). The south-west angle was seen from the air in 1983, the north-west angle was seen as a raised, curved bank still surviving in woodland in 1988, the north-east angle was recorded as a raised earthwork in heavy woodland the same year, and the remaining south-east angle was recorded as a curving scarp within a plantation in 1990; thus the entire perimeter of this very large camp can be extrapolated, with three of its angles surviving as raised earthworks.

References for Dunipace Camp

Britannia xv (1984) p.274;
Air Reconnaissance in Roman Britain 1977-1984 by G.S. Maxwell & D.R. Wilson in Britannia xviii (1987) p.37;
Britannia xix (1988) p.427;
Britannia xx (1989) p.271;
Britannia xxi (1990) p.312 & fig.6 p.311;
Britannia xxii (1991) p.230.