Field Visit
Date December 1981
Event ID 1138494
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Balmakewan NO 665 666 NO66NE 5
This temporary camp, probably one of those used in the campaigns of the emperor Septimius Severus (c. AD 208-11), is situated immediately NW of Balmakewan house at the confluence of the River North Esk and the Luther Water. Roughly trapezoidal on plan, it measures about 850m by 600m over all (at least 46ha). Although most of the perimeter was first identified from cropmarkings, the N angle and considerable portions of the adjacent sides can still be traced as earthworks in a conifer plantation. The positions of only three gates have so far been identified: the southernmost on the NW side, and the central gates on the SW and NE; the latter is guarded by a titulum.
RCAHMS 1982, visited December 1981
(St Joseph 1969, 112, 118-19)
