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AOC 1999 watching brief
Date July 1999
Event ID 557603
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/557603
In July 1999, AOC Archaeology Ltd maintained a watching brief while engineering contractors cut two site investigation trenches through the concrete slab of the depot forecourt and a further five small test pits through the floor of the standing bus garage building. Trench 1 (at NS 4595 7322) and 2 (at NS 4596 7324) revealed three ditches that formed the western fore-works to the combined Roman fort and Antonine Wall defences.
The identification the ditches repeats observations by earlier investigator on the sites and confirms the survival of the truncated, combined fort and Wall defences in almost exactly the same situation and alignment separately by Macdonald (1932) and Miller (1928). It should be noted, however, that none of these features resembled the classic Roman V-shaped ditch profile.
S N Miller 1928; G MacDonald 1932; A Dunwell, G Bailey, A Leslie, A Smith 2002; K Speller and A Leslie 2002.
