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
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