Excavation
Date 1967
Event ID 1124265
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1124265
NS 731577. Investigation by Mr G S Maxwell of the NE front of the Roman fort discovered and excavated by Mr J M Davidson, revealed that the front of the rampart on this side had been repaired by the addition of a turf cheek to the main body of clay. The rampart was 27' in thickness, its inner edge being marked by a carefully laid kerbing of sandstone slabs and the outer edge by a much cruder spread of boulders. A V-shaped ditch, measuring 14' in width by 4' in depth, lay approximately 30' beyond the outer lip of the rampart; a second ditch, 5' wide and 2' deep, lay 15' further out. No evidence was recovered to suggest that the site had been occupied by the Romans any earlier than the 2nd century A.D. It is possible, however, that the fort overlies a small native settlement. Publication will be in Volume I of the Lanarkshire Inventory.
RCAHMS (DES 1967, 58)
