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Excavation
Date 1953 - 1961
Event ID 568076
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/568076
In the years between 1953 and 1961 trenches cut under the auspices of the Hunterian Museum revealed the stone base of the Antonine Wall and the Antonine Ditch, while inside the park there were found to the S of the Antonine Wall remains of streets, gutters and several rows of postholes, belonging to narrow wooden buildings, besides a great quantity of Antonine Pottery. These remains indicate the presence of a fort, or a fort-annexe, and their disturbed condition at the same time suggests that much of the fort has been destroyed by the construction of the medieval peel and its associated structures, and by the laying out and terracing of the Park in more recent times.
A S Robertson 1973
