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Location:

  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Inverquharity
  • geo:56.711243,-2.97345
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Class:

  • Castle
  • invisible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=12462

Annotations

This is one of the so called “Glen Blocker Forts” built circa 85.  They were used only briefly before being abandoned and  were located so as to control the exits from the Glens which were defiles or valleys leading out of the highlands. TThese forts are now considered to be a part of the Gask Ridge system of border control and they include Drumquhassle, Malling, Bochastle, Dalginross, Fendoch, Inchtuthil, and Inverquharity.

http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/33713/details/inverquharity/

http://roman-britain.co.uk/places/inverquharity.htm

http://www.romangask.org.uk/Pages/Papers/Inverquharity.html


Nearby

Inverquharity Temporary Camp

Inverquharity Temporary Camp

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Tumulus

Tumulus (2 km)

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This object was added by Randal Gilbert on 2013-01-15. Last update by Randal Gilbert on 2016-07-27. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/12462 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
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