Oblique aerial view.
PT 8714
Description Oblique aerial view.
Date 1981
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number PT 8714
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 347532, SC 1711783
Scope and Content Fortress at Carpow, Perth and Kinross This Roman fortress is at Carpow. It was only in 1943 that its full layout was recorded through aerial photography, though the location was suspected. It appears to have had one period of occupation before being deliberately dismantled and abandoned. This is an aerial view of the site. It shows the E side of the fort and the SE corner. There is an entrance halfway along the E rampart. The remains of the road, which entered the fort can be clearly seen at this point, head towards the headquarters. The site was excavated in the 1960s. The pottery and coins found suggest that it was in use at the start of the third century AD. The fort would have held about 3500 men, and there is evidence that the garrisons was from the Second and Sixth Legions. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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