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Excavation photograph - ditch section.

RX 3532

Description Excavation photograph - ditch section.

Date 1949

Collection Papers of Sir Ian A Richmond, archaeologist, Oxford, England

Catalogue Number RX 3532

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 357127

Scope and Content Fort at Cappuck, Scottish Borders This Roman fort is at Cappuck. It is situated on the E bank of Oxnam Water, and guards the point where Dere Street, the main Roman road from England, crossed the river. The site was occupied several times during the Flavian and Antonine periods. This view of the site was taken during excavation and it shows a section through one of the V-shaped defensive ditches. Each fort was surrounded by at least one ditch, with the last phase having two. They were up to 5 m wide and 1.5 m deep. The site was excavated in 1886, then again in 1911 and 1949. An inscribed stone found during the first excavation shows that part of the fort was built by the Twentieth Legion, probably during the Antonine phase. It is now the Royal Museum of Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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Attribution: © Courtesy of HES. Papers of Sir Ian A Richmond, archaeologist, Oxford, England

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