Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Deers Den is an archaeological site at Kintore, Scotland in Aberdeenshire. The site has mesolithic remains, Iron Age artefacts and is a known Roman Camp. This 120-acre (0.49 km2) site is partially disturbed and developed by the western part of Kintore itself. The site is associated with the Severan invasion, ca 200 CE. Deers Den is one of a chain of Roman Camps generally strung in a north to south alignment to support the invasion and exploration of northern Scotland by the Romans.The site was excavated by Murray Cook of Rampart Scotland http://www.rampartscotland.co.uk/ and remains to this day one of the largest ever excavations in Scotland. The marching camp recovered more internal features than any other camp in the Roman Empire. Other superlatives include more roundhouses than have ever been excavated in any one locations in Scotland and more Neolithic pottery than had been previously excavated in Aberdeenshire (Cook & Dunbar 2008).Deers Den, was occupied by the Romans on at least two occasions, the late first century AD during Agricola's invasion and either during the late 2nd or early 3rd centuries AD during either Commodus or Septimius Severus rule (ibid).These large forts at Ardoch, Strageath, Inchtuthil, Battledykes, Stracathro and Raedykes, taking the Elsick Mounth on the way to Normandykes, thence proceeding to the northerly camps of Ythan Wells, Deers Den and Glenmailen.. }
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- Deers_Den abstract "Deers Den is an archaeological site at Kintore, Scotland in Aberdeenshire. The site has mesolithic remains, Iron Age artefacts and is a known Roman Camp. This 120-acre (0.49 km2) site is partially disturbed and developed by the western part of Kintore itself. The site is associated with the Severan invasion, ca 200 CE. Deers Den is one of a chain of Roman Camps generally strung in a north to south alignment to support the invasion and exploration of northern Scotland by the Romans.The site was excavated by Murray Cook of Rampart Scotland http://www.rampartscotland.co.uk/ and remains to this day one of the largest ever excavations in Scotland. The marching camp recovered more internal features than any other camp in the Roman Empire. Other superlatives include more roundhouses than have ever been excavated in any one locations in Scotland and more Neolithic pottery than had been previously excavated in Aberdeenshire (Cook & Dunbar 2008).Deers Den, was occupied by the Romans on at least two occasions, the late first century AD during Agricola's invasion and either during the late 2nd or early 3rd centuries AD during either Commodus or Septimius Severus rule (ibid).These large forts at Ardoch, Strageath, Inchtuthil, Battledykes, Stracathro and Raedykes, taking the Elsick Mounth on the way to Normandykes, thence proceeding to the northerly camps of Ythan Wells, Deers Den and Glenmailen.".