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Watching Brief

Date 1984

Event ID 1036170

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036170

NT17NE 3.00 1895 7683

NT 189 768 Foundation trenches dug for the construction of a new house in an area which was formerly part of the garden of 45 Cramond Glebe Road exposed and cut through part of the SW corner of the rampart bank of the Roman Fort, confirming its position as on the published plan. The bank appeared to consist of homogeneous yellowish-brown clay, much as described in the report on the excavations in the 1950s, but in contrast to the stretch of the E rampart excavated in 1977, which was of turf, with the

outlines of individual turfs clearly visible. The foundation trenches were

not cut sufficiently deeply for the Roman ground surface to be exposed, and no trace of the rampart facing wall was exposed in situ, with the possible exception of one large boulder. Quantities of loose masonry, all

apparently unworked, may have come from the wall core. Britannia V (1974), 163-224; Discovery Excav Scot 1984, 14.

N Holmes

Sponsor: City of Edinburgh

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