Strageath is a

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near the

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in eastern

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. Strageath was one of a chain of camps that the Romans used in their march northward. Other notable camps in this chain are Ardoch,

Battledykes Battledykes is a Roman camp slightly to the north of Forfar, Scotland. According to Hector Boece, Pictish chiefs met at a castle by Forfar Loch to plan how to repel the Roman armies, who invaded several times between the 1st and 4th centuries ...

Stracathro Stracathro ( gd, Srath Catharach) is a small place in Angus, Scotland. It was the site of a Roman marching camp as their forces invaded to the north. Location Stracathro is located southeast of Edzell in north-east Angus. It lies to the north ...

Raedykes Raedykes is the site of a Roman marching camp located just over northwest of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. National Grid Reference NO 842902. It is designated as a scheduled monument. A marching camp was a temporary camp used mainly fo ...

and

Normandykes Normandykes (Grid Reference: NO 830994) is the site of a Roman marching camp to the southwest of Peterculter, City of Aberdeen, Scotland. The near-rectangular site, measuring approximately , covers about of the summit and eastern slopes of a hi ...

. In the

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the parish church of ''Strogeath'' lay within the area of the fort. The dedication was to

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. The site is marked by a graveyard, and some scant remains of the church building.C.Michael Hogan, ''Causey Mounth'', The Megalithic Portal, ed. A. Burnham (2007)
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Roman fortified camps in Scotland Scheduled monuments in Scotland Roman auxiliary forts in Scotland {{AncientRome-stub