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Note
Date 1983
Event ID 1154206
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Cardean, Fort NO 289 460 NO24NE 12
Situated on a promontory at the confluence of the River Isla and the Dean Water, there is a fort measuring about 180m from NW to SE by 140m transversely within the rampart (c. 2.5ha). Excavation between 1966-75 revealed the presence of timber barracks in both the praetentura and retentura, as well as a large timber granary, and it is probable that the fort accommodated two separate regiments. Only one brief period of occupation was detected, the artefactual and structural evidence indicating that the fort was peacefully evacuated in c. AD 86. Iron Age pottery discovered beneath the rampart and internal structures presumably derived from an earlier native unenclosed settlement occupying the same site. Additional protection was provided by a ditch which crosses the promontory some 180m to the NE of the fort, the outwork being broken for an entrance opposite the short stretch of road that issues from the NE gate of the fort. Ditches springing from the fort's defences at the E and Wangles probably delimit annexes.
RCAHMS 1983.
(Name Book, Forfar, No. 2, p. 54; DES, 1975, 8).
