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Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 1032433
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1032433
(formerly described under NS57SW 65.11)
NS 535 724
NS 5352 7245 and NS 5353 7245 Two trenches were opened by GUARD in September 1997, ahead of a proposed single house development, to locate and evaluate the condition of any surviving remains of the Antonine Wall. Some indication of the likely condition and characteristics of the Wall at this point was provided by records of an excavation conducted immediately W of the site in 1963 (Robertson 1964) (see NS57SW 65.00 at NS 5336 7244). A small portion of the Rampart base revealed that work can still be seen today exposed on the ground.
Trench 1 revealed that the Ditch survived more or less in the location anticipated. Although not fully excavated, thereby precluding measurement of its surviving width, a section cut into the Ditch fills demonstrated the features to have a step-cut profile on its N side and to have been allowed to fill naturally over the centuries. Trench 2, 3m to the E, exposed an identical sequence.
K Speller and A Leslie 2002
A Dunwell, G Bailey, A Leslie, A Smith 2002; A S Robertson 1964.
