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Watching Brief
Date 5 February 2015
Event ID 1026715
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1026715
NX 73900 64085 (Canmore ID: 64696) A watching brief was undertaken on 5 February 2015 during the replacement of five electricity poles within the area of the scheduled monument. One machine trench (NX 7406 6407) in the southern perimeter of the southern Roman camp (Camp V) exposed part of a steep-sided pit or ditch but no dating evidence was found. Three other trenches in or close to Camp V produced no archaeological evidence. A shallow, cobble-filled ditch or pit was recorded in a fifth trench E of Marchfield Farm (NX 7396 6490 ); this feature, although similar to some of the foundation trenches investigated in 1951 during the trial excavation of the adjacent fort, is probably part of a post-medieval field drain.
Report: Dumfries and Galloway HER and National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE)
Funder: CIET (UK) Ltd
John Pickin
(Source: DES, Volume 16)
