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1980 excavations at Carleith
Date 1980
Event ID 558236
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/558236
NS47SE 52 480 729.
NS 480 730 - NS 482 730 (NS 479 730 - NS 481 729 ?) Excavations at Carleith in 1980 to prove the line of the Antonine Wall also sought evidence of a possible fortlet which on the grounds of spacing might be expected hereabouts. Search for a fortlet was concentrated at three points:
(i) on high ground in front of Carleith farm (area NS 4813 7296);
(ii) where the Wall turns northwards (area NS 4805 7298), and
(iii) on lower ground beside the Carleith Burn where enigmatic structures, including "a wall base 9ft wide which leaves at 90 degrees to the southern edge of the Antonine Wall", were observed in 1971 (area NS 4796 7300).
Further work at (i), the most likely position, where fragments of the stone base on two apparently conflicting alignments were located, is in prospect.
L Keppie and J Walker 1980; MS and oral information from L Keppie and J Walker, May 1980.
