Publication Account

Date 17 December 2011

Event ID 922789

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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Discovered in 1939 by Crawford on one of his seminal flights into Scotland (see Chapter 4), the cropmark camp at Gallaberry lies on level ground about 1km east of the River Nith and less than 3km south-east of the fort and camps at Dalswinton. The camp is a parallelogram in form, measuring 109m from south-west to north-east by 61m, enclosing 0.67ha (1.7 acres). An entrance gap is visible in the south-west side and a further break can be seen in the south-east side, but this is not clearly an entrance. Excavations in 1939 by St Joseph recorded that the ditch was V-shaped, about 3.35m wide and 1.4m deep (Taylor 1940: 162; St Joseph 1952b: 120–2). The site overlies a probable Neolithic cursus monument and is close to a small prehistoric fort.

R H Jones