Trial Trench

Date 1979

Event ID 558714

Category Recording

Type Trial Trench

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NS57SW 50 5082 7225.

NS 508 723 Cleddans. A Roman fortlet located by trial trenching in 1979 measured internally 18m east-west by 17.6m north-south within a rampart set on a 3.6m wide stone base.

It predates the Antonine Wall which abuts it at the north-east corner at a sharp angle. The north-west corner had been much disturbed by ploughing but the Wall would have joined it some way south of this angle.

F O Grew 1980; L Keppie and J Walker 1980.