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Normandykes (Grid Reference: NO 830994)Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50000 (2004); Explorer 406 Aberdeen and Banchory, 1:25000, United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map is the site of a Roman marching camp to the southwest of Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland. Temporary Marching Camp: Normandykes, Peterculter, Grampian (2004)St. Joseph, J.K., Air Reconnaissance of North Britain, J.R.S. xli (1951) p. 65 The near-rectangular site, measuring approximately , covers about of the summit and eastern slopes of a hill overlooking the River Dee and the B9077 road further south.Crawford, O.G.S. Topography of Roman Scotland North of the Antonine Wall, Cambridge, England pp. 110-2 (1949) Aerial photographs for Normandykes have been archived between 1947 and 1976. RCAHMS Site Record for Normandykes Hilton; Oldtown; Peterculter Photographs (2004) The camp is about , or less than half a day's march, north of the Raedykes camp. It is possible that the actual route taken would have entailed one day's march, over a route likely chosen to avoid the Red Moss, a virtually uncrossable bog near the present day village of Netherley.
Normandykes was first mentioned as Norman's Dyke and interpreted as a Danish Camp in 1795, but then corrected in the New Statistical Account of 1845 as Roman.
The camp was first excavated in the year 1935 by Ian Richmond and MacIntyre; RCAHMS Archaeology Notes: Normandykes (2003) construction is thought to date to the Antonine or Severan periods.
The site is designated a scheduled monument.
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