Note 69 — Chapter II · THE ROMAN PROVINCE IN SCOTLAND.

Mr. Burton, in stating his disbelief in the genuineness of Richard and its results, adds, among other things to be abandoned, ‘the celebrated Winged Camp; the Pteroton Stratopedon can no longer remain at Burghead in Moray, though a water tank there has become a Roman bath to help in its identification, and it must go back to Edinburgh or some other of its old sites.’—(Vol. i. p. 62.) He is, however, mistaken in supposing that its identification rests upon Richard. Ptolemy is in reality the authority for Alata Castra and its position on the shore of the Moray Firth.

It is of course absurd to recognise Roman remains there at that early period, but there can be no question that a native strength existed on that headland. See Proc. Ant. Soc. vol. iv. p. 321, for an account of the remains.