Brunswark, Burnswark, or Birrenswark, an isolated and conspicuous hill on the NE border of Hoddam parish, Dumfriesshire, near the Caledonian railway, and 3¾ miles SE of Lockerbie. It rises to an altitude of 920 feet above sea-level; has a tabular summit; stands out against the sky-line, in extensive prospects from the straths of the Annan, Solway, and Eden; commands a wide panoramic view; is crowned with two well-preserved Roman camps, believed to have been formed in the time of Agricola; and was a central station of the Romans, whence their itinera diverged to all the southern parts of Scotland. By Skene it is also identified with Trimontium (Welsh Trefmynydd, 'town on the mountain'), a town of the Selgovæ mentioned by Ptolemy (Celt. Scot., vol. i., 1876, p. 72).
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