Suspected Agricola Fort.
Visit Drumquhassle Roman Fort
📍 Location: Drumquhassle, near Drymen, Stirlingshire
👁 What survives: The fort survives principally as buried archaeology and subtle landscape traces.
⭐ Best for: Understanding the Flavian advance towards the Highland edge.
🥾 Visit: A rural archaeological landscape with limited visible remains.
🏛 Nearby Roman places: Bochastle, Doune and the approaches to the Highlands
Drumquhassle at a glance
| Occupation | Flavian period, late first century AD; precise foundation and abandonment years remain uncertain. |
| Garrison | Unknown. |
| Size | Approximately 130 × 110 m (about 1.43 hectares), with an additional annexe. |
| Troop estimate | About 500 is a broad cohort-scale comparison, not an attested headcount. |
Inscriptions
No unit-identifying inscription is cited in the site account.
References
References
Drumquhassle (Trove NRHE)
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