Battle-Dykes, a quondam Roman camp on the N bank of the Lemno rivulet, in Oathlaw parish, Forfarshire. It measured about 2970 feet in length, 1850 in breadth, and 80 acres in area, and is now a well-cultivated farm, called Battle-Dykes. The pretorium is the only part visible; but some small urns and other relics were exhumed from it, and are preserved in the vicinity. A grand Roman iter connected it with the camp at Ardoch; and other lesser itinera connected it northward with camps at Wardykes and Haerfaulds, distant respectively 11 and 19 miles.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)