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Oblique aerial view

SC 1776230

Description Oblique aerial view

Date 1974

Collection John Dewar

Catalogue Number SC 1776230

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of DB 1492

Scope and Content Fort at Bar Hill, East Dunbartonshire This Roman fort is built on top of Bar Hill, just E of Twechar. The site offers views to the Kelvin to the N, and E and W to several other forts along the Antonine Wall. Beneath the fort were the remains of an earlier enclosure, possibly also Roman. This is an aerial view of the site. The fort can be seen as a series of cropmarks in the centre of the image. Above it are the lines of both the Antonine Wall and the Military Way. Some of the cropmarks inside the fort belong to the fortlet. Bar Hill is an Antonine Wall fort, but is unusual in that it stands several metres to the S of the Wall and does not physically link to the barrier. The fort was excavated by Sir George Macdonald in 1902 and 1905, with further work done in 1978 to 1982. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference 6818/6

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1776230

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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