Note
Date 1982
Event ID 1107703
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Croy Hill, Fort NS 733 765 NS77NW 10
Situated on a plateau some 300m NE of the summit of Croy Hill, this fort is one of the stations on the Antonina Wall; measuring about 82m by 72m (0.6ha) internally, it abuts the S face of the Wall. Excavations in 1920, 1931 and 1935 recovered the plan of the defences and details of a granary and the headquarters building; they also located, beneath the fort, a small enclosure 0.3ha in area, which was then identified as a praesidium of Agricolan date, but which later excavation has shown to be early Antonina. The latter investigation also revealed the existence of a bypass road on the S slopes of the hill together with traces of an extramural settlement and an area of fields or enclosures, lying respectively to the SW and SE of the fort.
RCAHMS 1982
(Macdonald 1925, 288-90; 1932, 243-76; 1937, 32-71; DES, 1976, 28-9; DES, 1977, 12-13; DES, 1978, 27; Hanson and Keppie 1978, 93-4; Hanson 1979)
