acus and the Romans under Agricola. This, however, is not
probable. Seven cities of the ancient world laid claim to Homer's
birth-place. About the same number of places are pointed to as the
scene of the Battle of Mons Grampius. Gordon says it was at
Dalginross, Chalmers says it was the Moor of Ardoch, some say it was in
Fife, others at Urie, in Kincardineshire. Skene, in his _Celtic
Scotland_, places it on or near the Muir of Blair, about the junction
of the River Tay with the Isla. Mr Hill Burton abandons the task of
determining the site as hopeless. If we accept the description given
by Tacitus, in so far as it says the battle was fought "_in conspectu
classis_"--that is, "in sight of the fleet," the place could not have
been Dalginross, and for this one reason, that unless the Earn was very
different in the days of Agricola from what it is in our day, the Roman
fleet could not possibly have sailed to a point within sight of
Dalginross. Judging, however, from some place-names in the
neighbourhood, there is little doubt that Dalginross has been the scene
of some bloody conflict or conflicts during the period of the Roman
occupation of Britain. The name of the farm adjoining the old Roman
Camp, for example, is Blardhearg, which in Celtic means "the red
battle-field." To the west, and beyond the River Ruchill, is
Dalrannaich, in Celtic, _Dailranaich_--"the field of mourning or
lamentation"; and a little to the north is Dalchonzie, in Celtic,
_Dailachaonaidh_--"the field of weeping." To the south of the plain of
Dalginross, and upon the road to Ardoch, there are still traces of the
Roman occupation of Strathearn. At Blairinroar there must have been a
bloody conflict between the Romans and the Caledonians. The very name
of the place implies it, for Blairinroar in Celtic is the "field of
violent onset." There are still to be seen in this neighbourhood huge
slabs of standing-stones, some of them 20 feet in height. Those upon
the level ground probably mark the graves of distinguished Romans or
Caledonians who fell upon the field of battle; but others, which run in
a line extending north and south, were probably landmarks to guide
messengers on their way from Lindum, the camp at Ardoch, to Victoria,
the camp at Dalginross.

At the west side of the new cemetery, close to the public road, there
is a curious round knoll, which at one time must have been used as a
place for the burial of the dead. The attention of