TRANSACTIONS. 5 
Donatwns.—Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological posiety 
and of the Epping Forest Field Club. 
Mr James Lennox submitted the audited balance-sheet for 
thespreceding Session, which was unanimously adopted, and the 
Treasurer was thanked for his honorary services. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
I. A Note on the Roman Camp at Springfield Hill, Dunscore. By 
J. CALLANDER, M.D. 
The height on Springfield Hill Farm, Dunscore, on which the 
Roman Camp is situated, is nearly oblong in shape. Its longer 
diameter, roughly speaking, runs nearly from east to west. On 
its north, west, and south sides it is separated from surrounding 
heights by wide and deep hollows. On its east side it is joined by 
a narrow sloping neck of land to the cultivated fields which trend 
away to the level holms far below. The surface of its summit is 
level, and measures about five thousand square yards. It is 
distant about two hundred yards from the public road leading over 
the hill from Dunscore Village to Dunscore Old Churchyard, and 
about the same distance from Springfield Hill farm house. It was 
for a cantonment in time of peace, and asa post of observation, 
we believe, that the Camp on Springfield Hill was constructed 
about the year A.D. 82. It marks not a position taken up by an 
army on active service in the field, but a permanent station held 
by a small force in time of peace. Several facts may be mentioned 
which appear to give support to this theory. The Camp is situ- 
ated near to the line of a Roman road, which ran from the south- 
east in the direction of the nurth-west, some vestiges of which 
were discovered and removed a few years ago. It is far too small 
to have afforded accommodation to any considerable force. Ifa 
Roman army of twenty thousand men required an area of four 
hundred and ninety thousand square yards on which to construct 
its camp, as we know it did, the Springfield Hill Camp, with its 
available area of five thousand square yards, could only have 
accommodated a detachment of from two hundred to two hundred 
and twenty men. Water must have been brought from some 
distance to Springfield Hill. A small force in the field would 
never have entrenched itself in a position where an active and 
determined foe could easily have cut it off from its water supply. 
The Camp is not fortified in the manner in which a Roman army 
