Oblique aerial view.
SC 1728639
Description Oblique aerial view.
Date 1989
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 1728639
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 17467 CN
Scope and Content Fort and temporary camps at Castledykes, South Lanarkshire This fort and temporary camps are at Castledykes, near Carstairs. They stand on a plateau overlooking a number of natural routes through the area. There were at least three phases of occupation at the site. The temporary camps lie NE and NW of the fort. This is an aerial view of the site showing the fort and its E annexe. The rampart which surrounded it was 9.1 m wide, with a series of ditches up to 12 m wide and 2.7 m deep. When the fort was reoccupied, the earlier defences were re-cut and improved. The fort was probably first built during Agricola's third or fourth Scottish campaign, in the AD 80s, and was abandoned about AD 86. It was re-built about AD 142, with minor alterations in the AD 150s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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