Publication Account

Date 2002

Event ID 1032426

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1032426

NS 6190 7270 In November 1994 a short emergency recording exercise was undertaken by GUARD on a section through the Antonine Wall near the site of the fort at Cadder (Clarke 1933), after a trench some 14m wide had been cut through the scheduled monument without prior consent. The trench had been partially backfilled before the arrival of the archaeologists, allowing only the W-facing section to be recorded.

The trench had been cut into the natural subsoils, leaving no trace of the Wall on plan. Cleaning of the section face revealed part of the base of the Rampart in the form of a layer of cobbles. A clear kerb-stone was located at the N end. The cobble spread was no more than 1.5m wide, in contrast to the more usual Rampart base width of 4m to 5m. The exposed section did not extend far enough to the N to locate the position of the Ditch.

K Speller and A Leslie 2002

A Dunwell, G Bailey, A Leslie, A Smith 2002; J Clarke 1933.