Excavation photograph. Rooms 14 and 15 of the Praetorium. Film negative, 5.25" x 3.25". Duplicate (C30097) from A O Curle photograph album (MS/28/461) is titled 'Hypocaust at west and surface heatin ...
ST 1881
Description Excavation photograph. Rooms 14 and 15 of the Praetorium. Film negative, 5.25" x 3.25". Duplicate (C30097) from A O Curle photograph album (MS/28/461) is titled 'Hypocaust at west and surface heating flues in floor beyond'.
Date 1923 to 1928
Catalogue Number ST 1881
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 1954918, SC 349282
Scope and Content Fort at Mumrills, Falkirk This Roman fort is at Mumrills. Built on a high plateau, it had several phases of occupation. It may have been destroyed and rebuilt twice before it was finally abandoned. There is an annexe to the W and the Antonine Wall to the N. This view was taken during the excavation of the site in the 1920s. It shows the stone foundations of the praetorium or commandant's house. The pillars in the foreground are part of the hypocaust system which would have heated part of the building. The site was excavated in 1923-8 by Macdonald, and again in 1958-60 with an emergency excavation conducted by the RCAHMS. The fort may have been occupied by a cavalry regiment, the Ala I Tungrorum, and the infantry regiment, the Cohors II Thracum. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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