Excavation

Date November 1980

Event ID 559906

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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The position of a temporary construction-camp first identified from the air was confirmed by excavation in 1980. It measured c. 170 by 140m (c. 2.4 ha) and showed only one phase of occupation. To the north lay a second enclosure measuring 35m E-W by 33m; this should probably be recognised as the ninth fortlet to be found on the Antonine Wall. The E ditch was 1.6m wide and 0.75m deep, but no trace of a rampart survived; a possible pot-hole was the only internal feature.

R Goodburn 1978; F O Grew 1981; G S Maxwell and W S Hanson 1981; G S Maxwell and W S Hanson 1983.