Excavation photograph - Barrack 1, front of contubernia and drip-trench, looking north. Glass plate negative.

Description Excavation photograph - Barrack 1, front of contubernia and drip-trench, looking north. Glass plate negative.

Date 29/6/1937

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

Catalogue Number PT 6308

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 355741

Scope and Content Fort at Fendoch, Perth and Kinross This Roman fort is at Fendoch. Built on top of a small plateau, it guarded the route to the Highlands at the Sma' Glen. Reported in the 18th century, subsequent ploughing flattened the ramparts and the fort was forgotten until rediscovery in 1936. This is a view of the site taken during excavation work. It shows the front of the contubernia, or mess-room, in one of the Barracks. The foundations of the building were stone, but the rest of it would have been timber-framed with wattle-and-daub walls. The site was excavated during the 1930s. Though little dateable evidence was found, the fort was built in the first century AD. When the fort was abandoned, the buildings were systematically dismantled, suggesting that this was a planned withdrawal. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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