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Field Visit
Date 25 April 1913
Event ID 1133045
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1133045
Earthwork, Ward Law.
About 300 yards north by west of Wardlaw Fort (RCAHMS 1920, No. 35) is the site of an earthwork. It has been almost entirely obliterated by the plough, and only at the north end does any trace of it remain, and that a short ill-defined stretch of straight rampart with a slight depression in front of it to indicate a trench. Were it not for a dip in the field dyke this fragment might escape observance.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 25 April 1913.
[see Curle's journal (MS 36/47 p.64) for additional commentary: 'I visited the site as Mr Shirley of the D.& G. Arch. [Dumfries and Galloway Archaeological] Society told me that the late Mr. Barbour had expressed the opinion that this fort presented more Roman characteristics than any Roman fort which he know not definitely ascertained to be Roman. He also was reported to have said that the foundations of buildings were recognisable within it']
