Note
Date 1982
Event ID 1145008
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Westerwood, Fort NS 760 773 NS77NE 8
Situated on a slight N-facing slope high above the upper reaches of the River Kelvin, on ground partly covered by Westerwood farmhouse (now an outdoor recreation centre), this fort is one of the stations on the Antonine Wall. When excavated in 1932, it was found to have measured about 88m by 84m (0.74ha) internally. The fort abuts the S face of the Antonine Rampart and has been additionally defended, for most of the circuit, by two ditches; the hollow that marks the course of the latter is at present the most conspicuous feature of the site. More recent excavation in the area to the S of the fort failed to confirm the existence on this side of either an annexe or the loop of the Military Way tentatively identified by Macdonald.
RCAHMS 1982
(Macdonald 1933, 277-96; 1934, 256; Keppie 1978, 12-18
