Another sighting of supernatural Romans in the border country has taken place at Newstead, near to Melrose. It was here that Dere Street crossed the Tweed, and an important Roman fortification was established beneath the three summits of the Eildon Hills, hence its Roman name of Trimontium. There have been a good many hauntings here, though few folk have actually seen the spirits. What is experienced are the sounds of the Roman settlement, hammering, banging and sawing, as if they were busy constructing their homes and shelters. The sound of a bugler announcing commands to the soldiers has sometimes been heard, as has the tramp of marching feet. Most of those who have heard the noises have done so in the early evening, when all is still around them.

Roman soldiers have also been seen in spirit form at Dunblane in Perthshire by the author Archie McKerracher. In 1974 he stood outside his house on the outskirts of the town to get some fresh air. It was a dark night, and he could hear the sound of many tramping feet. Over a period of twenty minutes or so the sound seemed to get louder and louder, as though an army was marching past. It did not bother him, though, for he returned inside and went to bed.

A week later Archie McKerracher was visiting and elderly couple who lived on the same estate. They told him that their cat and dog had been frightened by something in the past week, and gazed across the room as though they were watching something. Their evident unease lasted twenty minutes. Further discussion elicited the fact that the animals must have witnessed the scene at the same time as McKerracher. A third witness turned up ten years later when he was giving a lecture on local history. Cecilia Moore had sensed the army marching through her front garden.

Research revealed the fact that in 117 AD the Ninth Hispana Legion had marched through the Dunblane area on the way to putting down a Celtic uprising. They seem to have disappeared in the area, whether killed in a battle or not was never discovered. The housing estate was also known to have been built over two Roman marching camps, and comparison of aerial photographs of the site before development with those after showed that the Roman road passed right through the gardens of the houses concerned.