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This print dates from the 1840's. The artist and engraver are unknown. Ardoch is one of the ancient and historical locales for the Stirling Family. 
The Roman camp at Ardoch, on the estate of Major Murray Stirling, is regarded by antiquaries as the most perfect specimen of the kind now extant in Britain. It is situated on an eminence close on the north side of or rather intersected by the high road from Crieff, or Muthil, to Stirling; and is thus very accurately described in the first Statistical report: " The situation of the camp at Ardoch gave it many advantages ; being on the north-west side of a deep moss that runs a long way eastward. On the west side it is partly defended by the steep banks of the water of Knaick; which bank rises perpendicularly between forty and fifty feet. The north and east sides were most exposed; and there we find very particular care was taken to secure them. The ground on the east is pretty regular, and descends by a gentle slope from the lines of fortification, which, on that side, consist of five rows of ditches, perfectly entire, and running parallel to one another. These altogether are about fifty-five yards in breadth. On the north side, there is an equal number of lines and ditches, but twenty yards broader than the former. On the west, besides the steep precipices above mentioned, it was defended by at least two ditches. One is still visible; the others have probably been filled up, in making the great military road from Stirling to the North. The side of the camp, lying to the southward, exhibits to the antiquary a less pleasing prospect. Here the peasant's rugged hand has laid in ruins a great part of the lines; so that it may be with propriety said, in the words of a Latin poet, 'Jam seges est, ubi Trojafuit.' However, from the remains yet to be traced, it appears there were also three or four ditches, which, with its natural advantages, rendered this side as strong and as secure as any of the others. The four entries, crossing the lines at right angles, are still distinctly to be seen. The area of the camp is an oblong of 140 yards, by 125 within the lines. The general's quarter rises above the level of the camp, but is not in the centre. It is a regular square, each side being exactly twenty yards. At present it exhibits evident marks of having been enclosed with a stone wall, and contains the foundation of a house, ten yards by seven.
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