north fide of this is another fquare intrenchment, joined to this fo I
a regular communication. One fide had been bounded by the I
Ruchel-, but at prefent that little ftream has removed itfelf to I
fome diftance. Within this entrenchment, is another: I cannot I
help thinking that thefe works were intended as a ftationary fort. I
it having the fituation that the Romans confulted, that of a river I
on one fide ; but that it was left unfiniihed for the fame reafon that I
the camp was. The fize of the camp is about nine hundred and I
feventy-five feet, by nine hundred. There are fome particularities I
about this place worthy to be mentioned; fuch as the multitude I
of oblong hollows that lie parallel, and divided from one another I
by banks three feet wide, which are to be feen juft on the outfidel
of the northern Agger of the camp. Thefe feem to have been I
places for dreifing the provifions for the foldiery, not places of in-1
terment, as was fufpeited; for Mr. Mac-Nab, fchool-mafter oil
Comerie, at my requeft, was fo obliging as to caufe feveral of thefe |
holes to be dug through, and informed me that nothing but large |
quantities of wood-charcoal was to be found, the culinary fuel; |
and not the leaft trace of urn or human bones were met with to |
countenance the other opinion. Befides thefe are two remains of |
antiquities, both monumental. The one Britijh, a vaft upright |
ftone, near the edge of the camp : perhaps erefted, after the retreat I
of the Romans, by the Caledonians, over fome chieftain flain in the I
fight. The other a vaft Tumulus, which -probably covered the I
flain. This was a Roman tribute to the memory of their unfor- I
tunate countrymen. Germanicus performed fuch exequies over the I
remains of the legions of Varus in Germany, and carried the firft fod I
to I
to the heap. Primum exjlruendo tumulo cefpitem Caefar pofuit, gra-
%ffimo munere in defmBos, et prafentibus doloris Jodis*.
■Wifit Cafile Drummond, feated boldly on the fide of a hill, amidft Ana. 27.
a fine extent of woods, commanding a great view down Strathearn.
The houfe is very unequal to the fituation, being both mean and Castle.Drom.
Jtnall • nor is it of any great antiquity. On the back part are momd.
fome remains of the old caftle, built by Sir John Drummond, hereditary
ftewardof Strathearn, in 1493, after removing fro'm the antient
feat of the family at Stobhall. The family derive themfelves from
Mauritz, an Hungarian of royal blood, who having the conduit
of the mother and filters of Edgar Atheling, in their flight from
the Norman ufurper, was (with his royal charge) driven by a ftorm
into the Firth of Forth. The reigning monarch Malcolm Canmore
fell in love with, and married the Princefs Margaret, one. of the
fitters; and, in reward to Mauritz, for his ikilful pilotage, made
him a confiderable grant of lands, and caufed him to aflume the
riame of Drymen, or the high ridge; but, figuratively, the great
wave of the fea, in memory of the perils from which he had delivered
the fair Queen.
I The caftle was befieged immediately after the cruel burning of
•the church of Monivard; the chieftain and his followers having
retired thither to fcreen themfelves from their merited puniihment.
It foon furrendered to the King, James IV. on condition that their
lives ihould be prefervedbut as foon as that Prince got them in
his power, he carried them to Sterling, where they fuffered death
»or their impious barbarity. It was afterwards befieged, taken
* T aciti Ann. lib . I . c. 62.
and