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I've always thought that the only reason druids were mentioned by Tacitus and Cassius Dio is that the Roman legions had just had their asses whooped by a girl, while Suetonius was arsing about in Anglesey. I'd imagined his letter home to the boss - "well, yes, we were caught a little with our pants down while Boudicca burned Colchester, but we did invade Anglesey, and they had DRUIDS and everything, and were really scary. As soon as we'd finished killing all the scary people (who sacrifice children, they do, I saw them do it), we went straight back to save London".

So in my mind, druids were just a roman excuse for marching your army to the wrong end of the country while a mass revolt was happening.

sam

druid means annointed one, oak wise was another romantic misnomer.... lol

Mons Graupius is mean't to Britains biggest battle fought near Bennachie, rural Aberdeenshires highest point. (two forts also) Agricola, who needed a result to impress the powers back in Rome, gave chase to Calgucas and his army, and battle commenced near the Old Rayne side of the hill, so they say. The Romans won the day but Agricola had nothing to show Rome as Calgucas escaped. Luckily Tacitus was there to record and embellish the events. As usual the Romans showed no mercy to prisoners injured or otherwise. However the battlefield has never been confirmed as Raedykes (Stonehaven) and Durn Hill (Portsoy) have also been mentioned. Tacitus mentions that he could see Roman ships, Stonehaven and Portsoy have natural harbours but no druids circle or nameplaces as such. Bennachie has several Druidstones (Premnay) Druidsfield (Montgarrie) Auld Kirks of Tough and Alford as well as Hatton Of Ardoyne which locals still call the "druids circle", the small suburb next to Inverurie is called Port Elphinstone, was the Don deep enough for Roman ships? Barges used canals to transport goods 19th and 20th centuries between Aberdeen and Inverurie.
Would the names of these places and the Roman influence be connected? Grampian earned its name when Del Pozza, in the 1400's, didn't spell Graupius correctly calling Grampus instead. I also apologise for any errors in spelling.