Field Visit
Date 2 May 1958
Event ID 1106875
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1106875
The extant features of this camp are generally as described, with the added commments:
A. NO 2177 3790 - NO 2186 3788. Well-preserved bank 8.5m broad, but difficult to see due to vegetation and refuse being dumped on its S side, filling the ditch, the best part being its W extremity.
B. NO 2168 3769 - NO 2167 3763. Bank preserved as a field division with a hedge on top.
C. NO 2167 3763 - NO 2167 3760 and NO 2209 3740 - NO 2216 3738. No traces whatsoever in a raspberry field.
D. NO 2226 3763. Bank preserved in wood, exactly as shown. 6.0m overall width, 1.0m high. Faint trace of angle 0.2m high noticeable in field outside wood.
E. NO 2186 3746 - NO 2189 3746. Modern field bank with internal ditch exactly on course of rampart.
F. NO 2199 3743. Mound visible in field hedge boundary - 0.7m high - on course of rampart.
G. NO 2216 3738. Stony mound in field bank 1.2m high, 7.0m overall width.
H. NO 2231 3758 - NO 2228 3747. Course visible on APs (CPE/Scot/UK 230, 4269-70) but no vestiges in pasture field.
J. NO 2233 3777 - NO 2233 3770. Ditch 1.8m deep and outer bank 6.0m broad by 1.2m high; width of base of ditch 2.0m high. The curve of these earthworks does not fit into the plan normally expected for the NE angle and the feature strongly resembles an old covered-way - possibly a track in connection with the disused quarries here. General Sir Thomas Riddell-Webster of Lintrose believes that this is the NE angle of the camp and that the Romans broke away from traditional lines to take advantage of the natural defences of the deep glen, but this theory is open to speculation, and these earthworks cannot be accepted as part of the camp until expert opinion has been given. To date, local informants have been unable to give an opinion on these features.
Elsewhere, the course of the camp falls mainly in strawberry fields and no traces are visible. The camp well at NO 2192 3746 has now been completely erased.
Visited by OS (JLD) 2 May 1958
