Excavation

Date March 1995

Event ID 559453

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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(formerly described under NS57SW 65.09)

NS 512 723

During March 1995, GUARD were commissioned to excavate a trench at the above location before the construction of farm buildings adjacent to the scheduled course of the Antonine Wall. The trench measured 45m by 1.5m and up to 1m in depth and was positioned at 90 degrees to the adjacent scheduled area.

Throughout the entire exercise no archaeological deposits or finds of any significant were encountered.

Sponsor: Farm Engineering Ltd.

D Abernethy 1995.

Excavation in advance of the construction of farm buildings immediately S of the Antonine Wall yielded no information; the ground was already much disturbed.

L J F Keppie 1996